Acoustic Zen Adagio, How Good Are They?

KeithR, have you contacted Acoustic Zen to ask if there are any owners in your area who might be open to allowing you to listen in their homes? If you're in LA, then I have to believe there are more than a few Adagio owners in the area.

You might even start a thread asking the same question.

Audphile1- i'm not saying they will. New living circumstances made me sell the Sophias. I'm looking for something smaller and cheaper for awhile.

Tvad- I was going to do that, just taking the CFA tomorrow so I haven't really started my search. I'm going to take some time and hear a bunch of stuff. I haven't been out to hear speakers in years. I might see if I can go down the AZ factory even as its in SoCal.

Keithr, if you are going to audition some speakers, try to hear Totem speakers. I was really impressed with their Mani-2 Signature model. Monitor speaker that goes down to 29hz(uses Dynaudio drivers) and sounds really much bigger than it is, but the drawback is they like lots of power.

I listened to Adagios many times and find them to be a bit rolled off at the very top. Still dynamic sounding and pretty detailed overall, but not as open and clean as your Wilsons were.
Thought I'd bring up Totems as an option if you liked your Wilson Sophia. I think you will like Totems.

Kiethr, Fred at Katliaudio.com might have a pair for audition. He is in Chino hills. Closer than Upscale audio. Agree with Audphile1. Sophia's much better than adagios. Adagios has good bass for speaker / mid bass size. I would rate the adagios on neautral but a bit glassy side. Love the AZ cables though.My system is full of them!! Bigger model than adagios, if in work, should be alot better.

Audphile1-

Thanks for the suggestion--my focus has been to go in the more high efficiency route and the Mani 2s aren't in that direction.

I have owned Dyns in the past and always have liked them too!

KeithR