I bought a pair of these speakers in 1984 after having been thoroughly satisfied with my Dahlquist DQ-10's, and unable to find a speaker I liked better that I could possibly ever hope to afford. The B&W's were very expensive (about $2,000 each), but I paid half of that, as an "industry insider."

I used the B&W's for years, and preferred them to the DQ-10's in numerous listening locations in the various homes I've lived in. As of now, after a woofer rebuild on the DQ-10's, and a move to a new home with a listening room with far better acoustics than anything I'd owned before, I've relegated the B&W's to my exercise room, because I much prefer the sound of the DQ-10's. And, oddly enough, in my several conversations with the service manager at Regnar, the speaker the DQ-10 is most often compared to today is indeed the 802.

So, with all that being said, I'm curious as to whether anyone out there owns these B&W's and has any suggestions for improving their sound. They're fine speakers indeed, but to my ears (and in my current listening environment) they have an excessive amount of midrange and upper-bass "bloom," regardless of how I set the controls on them.

Any comments?