Acoustic Zen Adagio break-in questions....

Mine took well over 300 hours. It was worth the wait.

You might try the ayre burnin disk,the track just get the surrounds moving at half the annoying white noise,i have both xlo and ayre.Found both usefull,but the ayre really exercises the sourround and the frequency sweep is mo better.Robert puts at least 100 hrs of test on them before shipped.Mine didnt start to open up till 300 hrs or more,i suspect 500 would be more appropriate,they did sound as everybody described here.They have gotten all sorts of good jazz,vocal,the bela flecks greatest hits (cosmic hippo)really puts it to em though.I have had mine for 3 or 4 months now,very pleased with them.(robert loves to hear that!).

Well, I am happy to say that the "schizophrenic period" for my Adagio break in time seems to have ended....wow it was Sybil there for a while....sounding awkward all the time but in different ways. Sometime after the 100 hour point they started to sound musical, but tight...like many new audio pieces will..but they now sound like they need to be broken in rather than sold.

...the Adagios have suttled into a very musical growth process as the hours build. Fun to have a speaker that just becomes more enjoyable on a daily basis. Now when I am cooking or doing something in another room...I am often drawn into the music room because of what these speakers are doing.

Try hooking the cable to one speaker reversed, and placing the speakers close and facing each other. The out of phase sound waves will cancel to a degree and you can turn them up more without going quite so nuts. The longer the excursion/higher the voltage the faster they will burn/break in. The discs recommended are the ticket. Brown, white or pink noise(or all three as available on the Irrational But Efficacious CD).