whiskeytango6
07-04-2006, 09:22 AM
I recently purchased a pair a Acoustic Zen Adagio loudspeakers and wanted write a review but as it goes these are so new they won't be on the review site for a while. They are so new in fact that Acoustic Zen doesn't even have them on their site! Anyway, 5 weeks into listening, 150 hours burn-in time. I've listened to a ton of speakers in my time, as we have done.......searching for the grail that would satisfy our craving for perfection. I've always wondered what the "audiophile" means in this day in age. Is it the love of music? Is it the love of reproduced music? Is it the love of the equipment the makes the music? Or is it the love of searching, testing and buying the equipment that makes the music? I believe it is the love of music......period! Whether in the concert hall or in your living room. We all try to find the equipment that we think will be the end all to the reproduction. Spend $500.00 of a pair of speakers......no way they can be good! Spend $60,000.00 on a pair........they must sound like heaven itself! Like we know what heaven sounds like.
Well, enough bloviating, the Adagios are larger than they look in pictures, I had imagined something like the totems.....they are a fairly tall hefty floor stander, heavy at around 78 lbs. a piece; a note I am sure to their build quality and bracing....oh yeah, build........wow! I have the red ferrari staned burled maple......beautiful! 5 coats of clear lacquer that gives you that "miles deep" shine without looking like they are encased in plastic. I'm not going to go into the sound quality of each octave, I can't, I truly can't discern where the highs mids and lows stop and begin......really weird I know. I can say that they go deep, very deep. They are rated to 30hz and it is a solid 30 and then down to 25? They produce a seemless rolloff. Front ported so you don't have to think about rear placement......Mr. Lee sends a wonderful guide on setup.......use it! I listened to my usual lineup up suspects in listening. The music was clearer, and I heard instruments I have never before heard......it is almost like the speakers have the ability to peel back the layers of tracks so you can hear the separate lines of music! The Adagios play loud, but more importantly they play wide. The stage is all over the place, I hear the instruments where the artist intended them to be, left, right, up, back.......words can't describe. They are authoritative, and sustain "gravitas". In short, because I want to listen to some music.......I paid $4300.00. A price out of site for some, looked down upon by others. To bad, I believe these speakers will become and are in my mind ONE of the best ever engineered and produced No B.S. $60,000.00 for a pair of speakers? For what? So you can say.......these run $60,000.00! ooooooo, look what I can buy! Mr. Lee has has done something unbelievable.........thinking outside the box to make a box...........M
Well, enough bloviating, the Adagios are larger than they look in pictures, I had imagined something like the totems.....they are a fairly tall hefty floor stander, heavy at around 78 lbs. a piece; a note I am sure to their build quality and bracing....oh yeah, build........wow! I have the red ferrari staned burled maple......beautiful! 5 coats of clear lacquer that gives you that "miles deep" shine without looking like they are encased in plastic. I'm not going to go into the sound quality of each octave, I can't, I truly can't discern where the highs mids and lows stop and begin......really weird I know. I can say that they go deep, very deep. They are rated to 30hz and it is a solid 30 and then down to 25? They produce a seemless rolloff. Front ported so you don't have to think about rear placement......Mr. Lee sends a wonderful guide on setup.......use it! I listened to my usual lineup up suspects in listening. The music was clearer, and I heard instruments I have never before heard......it is almost like the speakers have the ability to peel back the layers of tracks so you can hear the separate lines of music! The Adagios play loud, but more importantly they play wide. The stage is all over the place, I hear the instruments where the artist intended them to be, left, right, up, back.......words can't describe. They are authoritative, and sustain "gravitas". In short, because I want to listen to some music.......I paid $4300.00. A price out of site for some, looked down upon by others. To bad, I believe these speakers will become and are in my mind ONE of the best ever engineered and produced No B.S. $60,000.00 for a pair of speakers? For what? So you can say.......these run $60,000.00! ooooooo, look what I can buy! Mr. Lee has has done something unbelievable.........thinking outside the box to make a box...........M