Avanti1960, yes, yes, I do agree with your findings. I had to return the D9’s. I must have added another 100 hours on them & I have never seen a speaker change so much. More bass, deeper bass, and the nasty mid/treble knocked right off.
I am almost ready to jump on a new pair of D9’s, the Dark Walnut looks nice. Thank you all for comments, there is not any "poor cousin" speaker choice between these . Just personal likes/dislikes etc. I have total respect now for the ProAc brand after my demo. and I can totaly see why they have so many fans ! The D9 just floats my boat a bit more.
Dude. From what I see the thing that put you off the D48 was too much bass but you pretty much preferred everything else from the ProAc. You have a D9 in your house and it doesn't work for you, but you think changing the cabinet color will make everything all right? What??? Why not just dial down the D48, which does everything else better except bass, and others have told you have tighter bass, and do that? What are you thinking??? This makes no sense!