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Focal Mini Utopias

Bought these on Audigon. I find them a tad bit bright. The sound stage is amazing so how do I tone down the brightness. Change speaker cables? Install a tube stage? Get a moderately price parametric equalizer? Get a Tact 2.0S? Adjust the toe-in of the speakers? Yadda, yadda, yadda. My room is not perfect but the soundstage is great -just a little bright, especially with loud rock music.

Rich
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eldragon
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Rich, I'd start at the source. And I don't mean components (although you don't list your associate gear, amp, player etc..) Start with recordings. I assume you listen to CD's? Some of them are highly compressed.
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jond
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What's the rest of your system? I run a pair of Micro Utopia's, not Be's, with an all tube system and have no problems with brightness. Give us more info so we can help. One thing though, the speakers are so easy to drive, why not try tubes?
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rpl77 OP
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OK, thanks for your comments so far. Here's the rest of my system: Musical Fidelity(MF)M3 Int. Amp (250 wpc), MF 3DCD, VPI Scoutmaster TT, EAR 834P Phono Stage, Synergistic Research X2 Interconnects and X2 Speaker wire.

If I play a well mixed and mastered disk (anything by Steve Hoffman) it sounds great. Almost anything new is on the bright or harsh side. LPs sound fine. Do I need an equalizer to compensate for bad recordings?
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