I am going to have to agree that the XR55 is bright and irritating. For the ones who don't think it sounds bright, I wish I could listen to yours because I want to know if there is something wrong.

In order to remove that bright sound, I had to turn tbe treble down to -10. That made it much easier to listen to. Actually it sounds rather good with that setting. Almost like at 0 the treble it sounds like +10, and at -10 treble it sounds like it should at 0.

Have any of you run SPL sweeps to see what sort of freq response your getting?

I have tried it in 2 different rooms, with 6 different speakers.