HAHAHAHA
Yeah I am Spaceballs dark side
But in seriousness, I have been playing with the attenuator and seem to have found a happy place and am really starting to enjoy/adjust.
I think the underlying problem is much of the music styles I listen to, particularly the heavier ones, dont have the best mastering. With previous setups, this was masked to an extent. It was still obviously bad, but you weren't punished like you are with these.
Having heard the Angie and Roxanne, I would say the Rosie is darker than the Angie by quite a margin. I think the Roxanne is actually hotter in the treble than the Rosie.
I actually love them with the bass attenuator on zero with well mastered typical audiophile test tracks.
However when listening to get my groove on, I prefer the bass dial at about 2 o'clock. Any higher and it ruins the good tracks, any lower and my lesser recordings punish me haha.
They sound pretty close to neutral with a slight boost in the bass with the attenuator on zero as best as my bad ears can tell.
Anyway, this is an x5ii theme thread, I apologize hahah.