"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.
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.