Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass

While waiting to see what to do with the Eufrodites, I had to listen to music, which with the Eufros wasn't possible.
Called up a local guy here who was selling some 70's stars, the Celestion Ditton 66, which I had already owned in the past.
550 euros, just as a place holder until matters are sorted out with the HH.
They arrived 2 hours later, delivered by the seller, ugly as hell.
Put them just there, where there was space, hooked them up, music on. Halleluiah.
No boom.
Fast bass.
Speakers completely, but completely disappear in the room.

Yes, the highs aren't as refined and maybe even it's time to replace the tweeter but this is 550 euros of pure musical pleasure.

Now we can calmly solve the HH issues.

Can I ask you what it was about the Eufrudites that attracted you in the first place? Often with single driver or horn speakers people are struck by the immediacy. Often that love affair goes away. The music is might be too intense or not natural sounding.

I ask because I think you should be looking at other speakers. Too bad you couldn't make it to the Munich show...might have found something there you liked.

Amuseb, To answer your previous question: Alas they are in family room, and I am prohibited from using room treatments. So I can't claim to be enjoying audiophile sound, but then again these aren't really audiophile speakers. In the past I've used ASC room treatment products with great success.

Thanks psag.
Interesting, what do you refer to as audiophile speakers?

The pair of Eufrodites that I heard sounded terrific--very dynamic and lively, with surprisingly little eviddence of midrange peakiness that I would have expected from the Lowther origins of the midrange driver. Doesn't great sound alone qualify something as audiophile friendly (the high price too adds to the audiophile bona fides)?

I can see how its powerful bass response could be a problem in some rooms, but, that is certainly a speaker system that would be worth the effort to work into any system. To me, most modern speaker systems sound dynamically flat and lifeless and require high volume playback to sound lively. Systems like the Eufrodites are kind of rare (lively without being unnatural in tonal balance) so it would be a sad thing if you have to give it up.

Amuseb, have you looked into room equalizers? If you are reluctant to go the common route of using digital equalization, perhaps you could use something like the Rives equalizer which is analogue and sounds quite nice.