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

wow, never even heard of them....I'm looking for a retirement system, so i'm in the price range of around 20-25 thousand.

Good point... any suggestions for full sounding speakers that don't have that B&W Diamond ear bleed?

Current components consist of:

Mark Levinson 5101 SACD player

Audioquest XLR Water interconnects to preamp

PSaudio BHK Preamp

Audioquest XLR Water interconnects to monoblocks

PSaudio BHK 300 monoblocks

Audioquest Inidigo Indigo bi-wired speaker cable

B&W 802D (1st gen diamond)

Setup could be an issue, but I had even worse preamp / amp combo before

Arcam CD72T cd player

Bryston BP26 preamp

Classe CAM-200 monoblocks

Dunno if bright is the proper term, they seem to have a lot of upper midrange energy and call attention to themselves

@mylogic you would certainly be thinking outside the boxes if you attempted to turn a set of 800 series B&Ws upside down, seeing as there is no flat surface on the head unit of the speaker

Maybe hang them upside down from the ceiling like we used to do with the old Series 1 Bose 901s

Why do you say the following?

 a gross mismatch of preamp/amp and speakers.

What is this based on? any facts to support your claim?