New speakers and excessive midrange

What do you mean new / like new ? If they're less than 50 hours of playing time then some more (100 hrs) breaking time is needed and did you change stock tubes to NOS ? They will made a huge different. Specially in the Dared SL-2000A.

I had to wait forever for the break in of my Aha! Njoe Tjoeb CD player and Von Schweikert speakers. about 300 hours now and I think they have finally settled in. I wouldn't change anything until you have passed the burn-in period.

did you go from a more conventional driver speaker design to the omega? some of what you hear is break in, but some is the nature of any horn design and some is 'your ears' adjusting to the differences......some horn designs are easier to get realistic bass from than others (klipsch heresy II is an example of a horn design that nails enough real bass to satisfy most average sized rooms). the omega is a great speaker, but it is a bit fussy.

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

I think you'll find they get better every day. I've only had a few fostex based spks and their spls measured increasingly higher starting from around 2k up to around 5k. With that emphasis, and your suspension not yet loosened up, you will indeed hear an excessive mid. Play some music with lots of bass in it loud and that will speed things up. Is a sub in your budget? That would help mask some of what your hearing now and still fill in the bottom octave when you have arrived. Good luck.