James remember something especially buying these now from full experience with these speakers in the past, the season is super cold on the shipping trucks! Any gear with Capacitors or especially very super tight pro drivers are very cold out of the box and will perform poorly until they settle in a room of 70 degrees or better and run for several days. The drivers especially get very brittle with paper materials as those are made of.
Which by the way and this goes true for any audio environment 70 F and above is pretty much the minimum for optimal performance, not only is the air less dense making mids carry much more and sound more "Airy" The highs have better decay and the bass is much improved being in a much lower density air in turn causes far better frequency integration.
Which by the way and this goes true for any audio environment 70 F and above is pretty much the minimum for optimal performance, not only is the air less dense making mids carry much more and sound more "Airy" The highs have better decay and the bass is much improved being in a much lower density air in turn causes far better frequency integration.