Set up and Room has a lot to do with the bass out of the athenas. I originally had mine in a 12 x 22 L shaped room with the speakers on the long wall and one of the speakers firing into the di9ning room.... No bass. I moved them to a 20 x14 room with a 5 ft arch to a entryway across the room from one of the speakers and the bass was Much better. Added power cords to my amps and got another level in bass improvement, very solid and deep..you can feel it now whereas with the other room there were days i didn't think i was getting better than 50 hz out of them. I lauditioned the dunlavy with Pass amps and they sounded very good...they sounded smoother on the top with ARC VT-100 with no loss anywhere else. I'm using VTL-185 with mine and they sound great.
Dunlavy Cantatas What Power Amp?
Upgrading from Adcom 555II. I'm using a complete Dunlavy set up for HT but mostly listen to music. For the best music I'm considering a nice 2ch amp and a matching 3ch amp for center and surrounds vs a 5 ch for all. Thoughts on this? The Adcom makes the Cantatas a little harsh and the bass is not very authoritative. Considering McCormack, Bryston, Classe/Krell (maybe too expensive) others?