Hi Sliced bread,
I wouldn’t say is bright, it was slightly on the brighter side when I paired it with a Rotel amp through the built in DAC. The Elex R made It more 3 dimensional and gave me more midrandge warmth. However I find the CM6 lacks low end oomph for the size and it will sound much fuller if you turn up the volume. I did compared it with the CM8 in the showroom and find the floorstanders tends to boom and made the high frequency muddy. I’m not saying CM8 was not good but CM6’s on top tweeter gave me more sparkle and detailed led me to purchased CM6 over the CM8.