hi,

well i have had the dyns installed for 3 weeks now, and i've found them to be a little bright/harsh at high listening levels..the tweeters are installed in the stock location near the door handle high up in the door.

should i give the speakers some more time to run in, or is it the amp?

thanks

maybe just drop the tweeter level on the crossover. see if that helps.

Bright and Dynaudio in the same sentence , Bull **** . Joking. I spose use the crossover adjustment and drop to 0 or -2 db, other than that i dont know

Could be the amp your running as well. If the h/u is set right but the amp is turned up too far on the gains what I call 'overdriving' occurs. It's not distrotion as in speakers start to distort more, the treble increses at higher volumes. Either turn the gains down ont the amp or turn your head unit down and the gains up a little. Either that r yech what everyone else has said.
Cheers
Mick

Would you consider moving the tweeters? It might be time to get out the bluetac and see if they sound better elsewhere.

Definately turn the gain down

I've had mine running off a PG ZXTi400 and they go extremely bright when the gain gets turned up...i tried moving them, mounting them off axis, tweeter attenuation on the crossovers...nothing worked until i turned the gain down. They wouldnt distort with the gain 3/4 of the way up, but they do go very very bright!

yeah bright - exactly, thats why im wondering whats going on

right now the gains on the amp are already down..just a bit above minimum, and the deck is hovering around 20-27/35 (alpine 9815)..

should i try turning the gains even more down and then turning the deck higher?

my deck is set on flat atm..no EQ etc

well, i think that might be the best way to go. since ur deck have a high output voltage. I set mine gain on the min and the split sound clear....

The crossover supplied with the System 240, the X-250, has three tweeter level positions, -2bd, 0db, and +2bd. In your installation with the tweeters high on the doors and with a direct and short path to your ears, I would recommend the -2db position. If they are already in this position and are still overbright, I would recommend a small amount of cotton wool, installed carefully into each ear canel, alternatively, you could try repositioning them or adjusting your Eq or gain structure, as previously suggested.

hutch!

have a play around with the gain. dyns dont sound over-bright. fact. something's not quite right. and no, burning in shouldn't have much of a difference at all to your tweet.. (your mid is another story - give that one 100hours IMO)

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sounds like your gains are set properly to begin with Stoff...If you can turn the headunit up more but need to drop the gain, then i dont think they're set right

Some headunits seem to put out more treble as the volumo knob goes higher though, so it may infact make things worse...only way to find out it to play around with it though

I'm assuming loudness, or any of the other tone controls on the headunit are off.

Other than reconnecting the tweeter to the -2dB position, or moving the tweeter to a more suitable position, then there isn't much you can do..

Setting the gain lower won't do anything, unless the amp was clipping a little more than it should. (it may not be immediately noticable apart from the highs sounding a little harsher)

I will like to point out that a tiny bit of clipping isn't usually audible - it has to be clipping a moderate amount before it is noticable..

But are you sure the recording isn't meant to sound like that? There are a lot of recordings that I would be extremely disappointed if the speakers made the treble sound weaker than it should be..