I think it's safe to say they're fully broken in, at this point. I still have the tweeter set to flat, and I've decided I like them best with the grills on.
I've been experimenting with toe-in. Those of you who said to pay attention to what's in the manual -- i.e., cross them just in front of the listening position -- were 100% correct. Holy cats! They don't disappear (except with the Perahia recording I mentioned before). Sounds near them tend to stick to them, and I get the sense of things coming from outside them every now and then, but not often. But, man, the stage between them is incredible. In particular, I notice *depth* that I've never really heard before. On something like the Buena Vista Social Club record, I can hear things coming from way back behind the main performers, 3 or 4 layers deep.
I have the fronts propped up on books to give them some rake, which helped a lot getting rid of the feeling I was peering down into the soundstage. They could still stand to come up some, but I'm not really comfortable raking them back any further. I'd like to find some stands -- more like cradles -- to lift them about 4-6 inches and keep the rake angle I currently have. I know this place at least *used* to have several people offering custom woodwork for racks, platforms, turntable plinths, speaker stands, etc. Is there anybody still around who might make the kind of thing I'm talking about?
I've been experimenting with toe-in. Those of you who said to pay attention to what's in the manual -- i.e., cross them just in front of the listening position -- were 100% correct. Holy cats! They don't disappear (except with the Perahia recording I mentioned before). Sounds near them tend to stick to them, and I get the sense of things coming from outside them every now and then, but not often. But, man, the stage between them is incredible. In particular, I notice *depth* that I've never really heard before. On something like the Buena Vista Social Club record, I can hear things coming from way back behind the main performers, 3 or 4 layers deep.
I have the fronts propped up on books to give them some rake, which helped a lot getting rid of the feeling I was peering down into the soundstage. They could still stand to come up some, but I'm not really comfortable raking them back any further. I'd like to find some stands -- more like cradles -- to lift them about 4-6 inches and keep the rake angle I currently have. I know this place at least *used* to have several people offering custom woodwork for racks, platforms, turntable plinths, speaker stands, etc. Is there anybody still around who might make the kind of thing I'm talking about?