Talon Khorus with no soundstage?

With so many great speakers out there I don't know why anyone would waste their time wasting the Talon. The only thing I noticed about how "fast" they are is the speed with which the price on the net dropped from $15000 to under $5000.
This is a speaker that is fundamentally flawed, the midrange is reticent making and the highs unrevealing it is not a coherent speaker. I have heard the X version and heard no improvement except for some rather gaudy cosmetic ecroutements.
It seems a little dishonest to blame such gross flaws in soundstaging on what is a very capable preamp from EC, perhaps to increase the reputation of a product you do sell at the expense of one that you don't.
I also question a company that say its speakers need 300 hours of breaking in, do you realize that is 125 days of continous high volume play. For a $16000 or a $160 speaker this is a completely unreasonable form of torture to make a customer suffer through especially when the result fall well short of Nirvana and after the cops have been over every night for four months. I suppose they realized this finally and chopped the last zero off, an easier sell?
DML1 the above poster said it well "Trust your ears!" if it sounds like $@#* it probably is $%@# or if it needs 300(0) hours of breakin, a perfect room, a paricular pre, 16 grand and ears of lead then count me out.

Good math and bad typing on my part "3000 hrs of break in equals 125 days.

Mr. Farnsworth, I would question your assumption that all of this negative feedback is a good sign. It certainly hasn't raised their stock on the used market. There was someone recently begging for anyone to bid his $4200 reserve to unload his talons, 70% off retail. There were very legitimate problems sonically with the speaker and the back door selling dropped the price to a point where many customers had to take a big loss to get out of a speaker that they couldn't live with. As I said earlier the expectation to have the customer break these things in for 3000hrs is unreasonable and dare I say questionable.
As to the X, I heard it at the Stereophile show. Yes I know that is a compromising situation for speakers but many did a good job. The X's were miserable. Perhaps at a price commensurate with their perfomance they may get some positive buzz.