Lii Song's version of the ZF15L speakers are jaw-droppingly beautiful!  The high gloss finish on top of exquisite hardwood veneers make these speakers extraordinarily appealing visually.  

The baffles are just shy of one and three quarters inches thick.  The metal bases look substantial on the Decware and Lii Song websites, but in person it's easy to imagine them being used in some kind of industrial application where they are used to support thousands of pounds.  The adjustable floor spikes measure four inches tall by an inch and a half wide.  

How do they sound with fourteen hours of break-in?  They are dynamically explosive!  They are also unbelievably fast! Their explosiveness and speed has already frightened me a couple of times while I was standing close to them.  Break-in is being accomplished with a LFD NCSE amp, which is being fed by an OPPO 103 disc player.  

Instrument and vocal timbre is excellent!  The realistic timbre is, however, as much to do with the LFD amp as the speakers, as it presents timbre better than any amp I've ever heard. Nevertheless, only when really good speakers are coupled with it do I get the sense of live musicians and singers being present, and that's what I am hearing from the garage as I sit at my kitchen table.

I wonder how much improvement I'll hear when I take them out of the big plastic bags and out of the crates where they are firing straight down into two and a half inches of dense styrofoam padding, a half inch of plywood, and the concrete garage floor.  I have pulled back the large plastic bags on both speakers to expose the binding posts and approximately one fourth of the back side of the speaker cones.  The amount of music coming from this small portion of the back side of the cones is amazing.  It's clear that these things are going to give my PAP Quintets a run for their money!  

Thanks for sharing your first impressions of the ZF15L's.

Great story. I especially liked how you described the awesome sound qualities of the pair, only to later spring on us that they weren't even out of the box at the time! Very funny and witty.

I agree with Kamran that those crates are huge but will give you the ability to ship/move them when and if the time comes.  (Storing them is the only issue I guess)

Keep us posted with more impressions and pictures when you get a chance.

So if I recall correctly with my Fast 15’s, it took about 200 hrs for the bass to firm up, and another 200 hrs before it completely settled in.

I’ll be amazed if it outperforms the Quintets.  Could not have fathomed that in my wildest imaginations.