Speakers sound too bright.

@rwalsh07  -  You are correct in not going down the rabbit hole right off the bat.  The key is to not start changing too many variables all at once.  Otherwise you will be chasing your tail and throwing away money. Give the speakers time to break in.  Play with the speaker placement, even if the location/toe/etc. is temporary, just to see how they respond.  (i.e. maybe move them further out from the wall or further apart, or closer together, you get the idea.)  Maybe some makeshift acoustic treatments on the wall(s).  And as you said, let your ear adjust from the KEFs and get used to different sound.  

Once you have done that and have a better feel for the MLs, then decide if they are going to work for you.  At that point, then you can worry about new speaker cables, or different electronics if you need to.

... just a nickel's worth of advice...

- Jeff.

Thank you Jeff

@rwalsh07 

Speakers being out of phase was brought up earlier.  I think the emphasis was on individual drivers within one or both of the speakers being wired out of phase.

Sorry if this has already been brought up, but it is a 10 second test.  On ONE of the speakers ONLY, I would connect the red (positive) speaker wire to the black (negative) speaker terminal and the black (negative) speaker wire to the red (positive) speaker terminal.  Just to see if it helps in case one of the whole speakers was wired out of phase.

Regarding Blue Jeans speaker wire, they predominately use Belden and Canare speaker wire.  I have both.  The Canare 4s11 is considered very good by many.  I did not like the Belden quite as much but many like and use it without problem.

np... and as you learn stuff, please post any insights or new questions, for the next person who may run into a similar problem.

It's all part of what makes this hobby fun...   (or extremely aggravating )

Is it worth changing out my Blue Jean speaker cables?  I feel like some of these expensive cables are over hyped.  If its suggested not to keep the Blue Jean cables, what relatively inexpensive cables would you guys suggest.  

You have some very good equipment that outclasses your speaker cables IMHO.  I’ll reiterate my earlier recommendation for these Acoustic Zen shotgun bi-wire cables that at $350 are an absolute steal and should be a big improvement.  I sold a pair of them to someone I think was using Mogami or Canare and was floored by the improvement, and these are so cheap if they don’t work out you could turn around and sell them likely for a profit.  Just do it!

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650194860-acoustic-zen-satori-shotgun-biwired-speaker-cables/