New speakers and excessive midrange


Got a new system together consisting of:

Linn Kremlin Tuner
Linn Genki CD
Dared VP-300B SET Monoblocks
Dared SL-2000 Preamp
Omega Grande 6R Speakers

System sounds OK, but there seems to be excessive midrange. Could this be a room problem or are the Omega's not fully broken in yet? Louis of Omega did some of the break-in for me (he's a great guy to buy speakers from, BTW - great customer service). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
joeylawn36111

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Joey, it's a good idea to run in the speakers heavily for a long time. I have now $150+ hours on my Omega Super3's and they did improve a lot past 80 hours. I actually got a Sonic Impact amp break in the speakers.

Reverse the polarity on one of the speakers. If you put them close together front to front and fairly tight, hardly any sound will come from your speakers. Also using a mono source like the Tivoli radio helps, since then all frequencies are nicely canceled. Be careful not to turn up the volume to high though to now burn the speakers; the caneling of sound can be quite deceiving. I ran mine 24/7 for several days. That was you can easily get close to 300h in two weeks.

Compared to my Missions and Spendor S3/5 monitors the Omega Super 3 do emphasize the upper midrange and highs, and aer nor quite as full as I want them to be yet. But their speed, transparency, and detail are startling.

Good luck,

Rene
Joey, also if you would like to get my first impressions of the Omega's:

Omega Super 3 vs. Cain Abby

Have fun breaking them in...

Rene