"Can you tell me about your break-in experience with the Adagios? Mine is being schizophrenic as all heck...."
Virtually anyone who has bought brand new Adagios, myself included, have experinced the same schizophrenic nature during break-in. It takes a long time-my guestimate would be that mine took six weeks of playing three to four hours on weeknights and six hours or so on weekends (Sat and Sun) before they stabilized. I was breaking in brand new AZ speaker cables at the same time. I would add that with the Adagios, tiny changes in speaker position make a big difference. Toe-in and maintaining vertical and horizontal level is critical too. So a lot of patience and trial and error and precision with a good level will all pay dividends. Since I bought the Soundcity outriggers right away, moving the heavy speakers with those sharp spikes was quite the task until I got some smarts and used the slippery discs sold at stores for moving furniture-hard plastic on the bottom and rubber on top. With those, making small incremental and precise changes was easy until the optimum position was obtained.
