Proac Rake angle?

Thanks everyone for your responses. Williewonka, I emailed proac and Stewart replied and advised not to tilt, and  to get a more ideal seat.  Will do.  On a side note, I will say that these have truly started to sound magical.  FINALLY.  I was worried about them to be quite honest, and thought I had made a mistake with them.  They sound so much better than they did upon first hooking hem up.   For the last 3 days, they've been playing Mahler, so that probably loosened them up right there. It is true, they need 500 hours before you can judge them.  They almost sounded defective at first!  What a difference.  These really do cast a spell on the listener. I'm simply amazed.  With 550 watts Mahler has never sounded so real.  The dynamics and just shear prowess of these speakers is astonishing.  

Audiolover718 - you might find they take a dive in performance around 30-60 hours, but by 100 they will start to sound very good.

From 100-500 hours the improvements will be more gradual.

You don't have to play them "at volume" to burn them in - you can leave them running at very low volume. This will burn-in the crossover circuitry and the voice coils. 

What speaker cables are you using?

Cheers

Listening to these amazing speakers as I type. I've got about 500 hours on them and they are a spectacularly precise, transparent and wholly satisfying speakers.

I tried both biwire mogami 3104 and synergistic research atmosphere level 1 single run.   Honestly, once broken in, I prefer the synergistic to the biwire mogami.  The mogami sounds slightly richer, but I lose transparency, speed and focus when compared to the synergistic.   The synergistic are a whole different ball game.  The synergistic cables create ghosts in the room. The Maggie's hinted at this. The proacs are supernatural in their presentation. They are so transparent, that the mandatory warmup on my preamp is so much more noticeable.   It  doesn't get truly "hallucinogenic" sounding until about 30-45 minutes, but it when you reach that time, it's like an aural thrill.   

Now honestly, I don't know if it's that the speakers don't respond well to biwire with my equipment, which would go against conventional wisdom around here with proac, or that the mogami is just that much worse of a cable than the Synergistic.  But I cannot get the magic focus and coherency with the mogami biwired as I do with the synergistic single run. But at the end of the day, we all must trust our ears, and do what we feel sounds better to US.   If it sounds good to YOU, then it sounds good. Many people swear by biwiring the proacs.   Didn't work out for me, with my given cables.  Many people will also say that higher end single in will out do a mediocre biwire.   

Its amazing that an entry level high end pre like the LS -17 can sound so amazing, but with the dac 8, ds450, and the D48r, it's actually quite stunning.  I can't imagine how bonkers  a ref 5se would sound like to replace it.  Best part?  The sound at low volumes, completely satisfying with full projected images at proper size.  👏 

Try replacing the stock jumper bars with a jumper made from the Synergistic cable you are using, if you have not already done that. Replacing the bar with a jumper made from the same cable made a positive difference in my system.

+1 for Jperry's comment above - jumper bars are probably the worst thing to use - I always use speaker wire the same as the speaker cables.

If you have store bought cables then get some quality wire from a company like Van den Hul or DH Labs. They both use great quality copper

Regards...