B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness?


I have the original B&W 802 D1 speakers and for the love of god, I cannot get the upper midrange / tweeter under control. 

What can be done to tone them down some?

 

onehorsepony

Showing 2 responses by 052rc

I had the same issue. For me, the problem was the binding posts. When I connected my speaker cables to the binding posts on my ProAc's the problem went away.

"B&W sells more speakers, high end speakers, than any other company in the world.  And the 802 D diamond is one of their best, many prefer it to more recent iterations of the 802 series."

I can tell by your post you've never had a pair of these speakers. The reason B&W sells so many speakers is they look nice, have an exciting sound that makes you say "wow" when you first hear them and they have really good distribution. Most high end speaker brands don't have the manufacturing capacity to fill a chain like BestBuy.

If you notice from the comments, most of us had B&W speakers at one time. But the key word is had. So yes, they sell a lot of speakers but people tend not to keep them. 

I know some people mentioned fooling with the room. It won't fix this problem. Unless you are willing to put something in between you and the tweeter, it won't help. And when I say help, I mean cover up, not fix. You can spend a fortune trying to fix these speakers. I'm not saying you can't get them to sound good, its just that it may be more trouble than its worth. If the choice was mine, I would get different speakers and be done with it.