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a) i don't fault the designer. i already owned the speakers before
building this studio. they came along for a few hundred so i grabbed
them. i told him i was thinking about changing and he said that i
would like them much better once they were soffit mounted.

Better than what? Better than they sound sitting on a table? Or better
than what you were thinking about replacing them with? In either case,
they didn't, so blame the designer. G

c) the speakers have some small tears at the radiused section at the
end of the voice coil where it connects to the gasket. the tapered
part of the coil is intact.

That's the worst kind of "torn cone." If there were some rips on the
flat portion, that's no big deal. They can be ignored if small or
patched if large. But if the suspension compromised, then the speaker
isn't working like the piston it was designed to be. Reconing is the
solution and it might make a big difference. Probably it would be best
to get advice from someone who works on speakers who can actually look
at and feel yours rather than asking a bunch of random and blind
on-line folks whether this is your problem or not.

d) this is the only pair of 809's i've ever heard. they sound sort of
ns10ish to me. very forward, but slightly cloudy top and fairly rolled
off bottom. somewhat fatiguing to listen to.

I can see that this is a fair description. The soffit mounting largely
affects the low end response and that's not what's making you tired.
It's possible that you just don't like them, or that you have some
mid-high frequency reflections going on that are changing the way the
fatiguing-range of the speakers sound in your room. Can you
temporarily put something else up in roughly the same place, like
right in front of the UREIs, and see how that sounds in the room?
Maybe move those trial speakers around to see how things change. You
may get some idea as to what's going on in the room that you can't
tell from the fixed speakers.

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