Talon Khorus with no soundstage?


Recently I've been auditioning a system that consists of all Electrocompaniet components and Talon Khorus speakers.
The amplifiers are a pair of AW180MBs.

It seemed that the sound was residing inside speaker cabinets and did not go outside. It's like you place one part of orchestra or band inside one speaker cabinet and another part into another cabinet and let them play.

The rest of auditioned components are: EMC-1, EC4.7
I did not pay attention to interconnects and tweaks but if my eye doesn't lie I saw Nordost Valhalla as a speaker cable.

I'm not a pro in accoustics but the only thing I know that original soud wave travels to our ear before the reflected one. That's why I think that soundstage in %$16k speaker must be present even in the wrong room.

Can it be other components?
Please, share your thoughts.
marakanetz

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...and now I've got the idea!
Thanks to Garys. I've read the article about "entertaining break-in Khorus advanture" and understood that the dealer that showed me that set-up couldn't do the same since He lives in the building and couldn't put them on 110dB coutinuous level.
BTW I have some hard core industrial tech CD that has tracks with freequencies bellow 50Hz.
Will such bass-turbation make a break-in time faster?
Mr Farnsworth!
If I were an audio dealer,I would certainly try to bring them to the presentation level(I would want to sell them for suggested retail!) But what will it take from me to have my success to sell them?
I would have to spend 1/3 of the calendar year of continuous break-in on 110dB volume and then spend another 1/2 year to sell them for 1/3 of it's price ?...
Hell wrong! I'll have to spend another $20-25k for sound isolated room while I will break them in + I must be probably using a huge-ball amp do it and pay for it's 24hrs/day current drow...
There are tooo plenty responces so far and I do not think that all of the members who gave a negative feedback had a "wrong setup"
I'm not familiar with technical side of any speaker manufacturing. I do not even exactly know what components of speaker we need to break-in except drivers and crossovers. But can't that be done while the $14k speaker is manufactured if you're so certain that it will sing after 1/3 year of continuous break-in?
I'm not going to say where I've auditioned these speakers, but He was very happy to sell them for $6000 and asked god for it.
Heh! another 02: I wouldn't use them to demo other components -- waste of business!