Speakers arrived. What beautiful pieces of furniture! I purchased my Walsh 3000 Talls in the red sapele. Interesting about the recommended break in period - SO TRUE! Out of the box they lacked... a lot. Interesting though that after about only 3 hours the sound has improved markedly. So far I now see no reason to hang onto my 1997 matched S/N Thiel MCS-1 speakers. I may continue this topic as a new thread once I get a couple dozen more hours break-in behind us.
Thanks to all who calmed me down, talked me back from the edge. ONE OBSERVATION - this coming from a newbie to the forums - A percentage of the responses to my original post were absolutely not helpful, were not even remotely on topic. I also noticed that many of those irrelevant posts were from posters with many, many prior posts. Observation, just because you yell louder doesn't make you correct or even relevant. To everyone else, thanks.