I want more bass…


Superb pair L’Instrument large horn speakers with two 12” woofers in each speaker.
So how to get more bass? My PassLabs XA25 was too little, my Luxman M900u was too sweet, of course these are not party or club speakers but my guests who are not audiophiles (you know the one’s who ask what are those? I say tubes…) let’s call them the sound bar set!

These speakers are rated down to 18Hz can anyone suggest the best value amp that can deliver bass to these speakers take control and make them move? 98dB sensitive by the way…

Give me some used cheap but real good amps to try please. Exposure? Class A. Not my weak knee’d Bouyrrang A50 300B 😉

Even my D240 MKII Audio Research seem not to push them deep and strong enough for the sound bar set. Can’t imagine I need a subwoofer…

 

 

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Showing 1 response by raysmtb1

Are you sure that the music you were listening to has adequate levels of bass that you can even hear? Lots of recordings have very little bass. I hooked up a spectrum analyzer to the secondary outputs on my preamp, and I was amazed at how many songs did not have bass in the original recording. Recordings after 2010 seem to sound much better than anything before that. I went onto TIDAL and download it a test down album. My speakers won’t go plenty long enough. It’s just that it doesn’t exist on the recording. It has nothing to do with where my speakers are placed , or watt amp or what set of cables or what kind of power it just doesn’t exist in the recording. If it exist in the recording, you’ll hear it. The test tone CD then I played I found it I could get my speakers to go down to 30 Hz sounded great once I got below 25 Hz , it almost couldn’t be heard. I did the same thing going in the opposite direction and found that I couldn’t hear anything above 13,000 Hz. There’s no reason for me to worry about what’s happening at 18,000 Hz because I can hear it anyways. You can download a Spectrum analyzer for your iPhone and it will tell you a lot about what’s going on. Try it. Sing a visual alongside what you’re hearing. It’s amazing how much you’ll learn about recordings.