The mid-range dip goes away if you push the flange and shadow flare in. I measured the in room resonse and it didn't have that 1khz dip that shows up in the majority of in room repsonses I've sent onlone. It still has a broad elevation in the highs that I perceive it as too much treble. I eq'd the speaker to beings the highs inline. Probably the most balanced thing I've ever heard. I feel it's a better speaker than the F206 and BMR that I previously owned. Really sounds incredible. I'm still going to sell them as I listen to too many garbage recordings and I own a selah speaker that's far less accurate, and kinda smoothes everything over. I don't feel my current speaker is in the the same league as the KEFsOh yeah absolutely, same here. If it wasn't for this site, there's no way I could navigate all the noise from subjective reviews and manufacturer marketing hype. After finding this site and using these measurements to guide me, I really have not made a single bad audio purchase ever again.
Again, you are not the only one. There are many of us who found this. What I'd love to know is if this is due to the frequency response we see in the measurements, or if it's something else. To that end, we'd need someone with R3's and the ability to precisely apply DSP to fix the midrange recession, and see if that changes things dramatically.
I can say that if I artificially introduce a few db recession in the same frequencies of my favorite speakers, they also become dull and boring sounding, in similar ways to how most people describe the R3. So it's quite possible this could explain it.
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