Acoustic Zen Adagio, How Good Are They?

For those interested, F2Audio, just got in a pair of Adagio speakers. Note: we are dealers located in Northern VA / Washington, DC area.

We just set them up today, so no listening notes yet. Over the next week we will be driving them with solid state, digital, and tubes to see what they can do with various electronics.

For those asking about being able to drive the Adagios with tubes, we (F2Audio) have now run them with the Cary SLI-80 (in triode 40 watt mode), the Cary 805 Anniversary (50 watts), and the Vincent SP-T100 hybrid amps (100 watts). None of the amps had any problem driving the speakers. Unfortunately, we do not have any lower-watt amps. The main thing to note is that the speakers sounded varied (while still maintaining its overall open and clear sound)with each amp, preamp, and associated tubes. To me, that is the sign of a good speaker...it passes along the signal that it gets.