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Acoustic Zen Adagio - need advise please

Hello everyone,

Time for speakers upgrade and I have almost decided to go for Adagios based only on what I read about them.
I know that buying speakers without auditioning them is not a good idea, however I have no much of a choice.
In the place I live only few brands are represented and I could not find anything to my taste within my price range.
My last speakers were Dynaudio 1.3SE and despite being very good in some areas I did not like their synthetic and bright overall sound and got rid of them.Temporarily replaced them
with LS3/5A and love them,but they are too small for the room my main system is in....so it should be a floorstander
to replace them.My room is 22x11x9.
My questions about the Adagios are:
1.Can Adagios be labelled as alrounder as I listen to wide variety of music genres? How will they handle hard rock for instance?
2.Is the box absolutely quiet without any resonances, feedback etc?
3.Do they come close to single driver ,paper cone speakers
in terms of natural timbre,size of instruments and presence.
4.Are the factory boxes safe enough for overseas shipping.
Some time ago I had big speakers damaged in transit(very poor packaging) and do not want this to happen again.
5.If you may suggest any other speakers up to $4500 which
come close to above stated please advise.
Thank you very much.
Orlin
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Showing 2 responses by mrjstark

mrjstark
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1. I guess so. from what I have heard (few from their line)yes.
2. There is no such a thing as "0" box resonance.
3. No, they are nothing like single drive speaker. If you meant the openess, transparent flow and scary realizm - No.
4. Do not know.
5. Out of many.....this one will shock you with dynamics, stage, value, close to live performence and easy load for most amplifiers. You will need to bi-amp those but you save on speakers list price.
Emeralds Physics CS 2 ($3500)

Mariusz
mrjstark
1,112 posts
 
Avrij,
I like your suggestion in regards to CarderSound single driver speakers. Nino, the entry speaker from CS line will lock bass and soundstage as well as scale and dynamics when compared to its bigger brother TyBone v2. The first one is single mouth design and second is double mouth, wich can be heard. Better atack, soundstage, dynamics and huge sense of scale and size.....especially with live recordings and Jazz.
It is probably due to the fact that room is loaded from the bottom as well as from the top of the speaker.
At $5900 , it is not cheap but IMO worth looking into.
There are limitations to 4.5 inch modified Fostex driver and it is the bass wich is very dynamic but locks extention. If you could add the quality subwoofer later on, you would have one amazing system that could probably make you stop looking for more.
But away, if my memory serves me right - Jeff Carder is working on new sub that will match his speakers ......I will check it out when it comes out.

Cheers
Mariusz
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