You can play with brace height a bit and change the feel of a recurve, as long as you don't go crazy with it. It might only change a pound or two, but it can be suprizing how such a little bit can change a bow's feel.

Dropping brace height about a half inch will help with the stack, but it may cause your arrow flight to go hinky. I don't agree with Asbell on a lot of things, but the one thing I picked up from his book is finding the proper brace height for your bow. Drop it down low, until you get bad arrow flight and noise. Then start twisting the string up, a few twists at a time, until arrow flight clears up and the noise goes away.

I've done that on many bows and always wound up within the bowyer's recommended range for brace height. The only drawback to shooting it on the lower edge is that any string creep will start making your arrow flight squirrely. But it just takes a few seconds and a few twists in the string to get back to good.