Apologies to Norah Jones, I needed more bass!

To clarify, the title of my thread was that I needed more bass, not bigger speakers! :) 

In prior rooms I would have liked Norah Jones a lot more with the smaller speakers.  So, no I'm not suggesting at all you can't really appreciate Norah Jones or any other artist unless your woofers are at least X inches in diameter.  I'm saying bass matters in a lot of music you wouldn't think it does. 

Time to get a swarm of THX certified subwoofers!  

@kennyc ?  Is this 1990?  Do we need THX subwoofers, Windows 95 and Times New Roman?

@erik_squires - thanks for your quick reply, and yes indeed, it’s amazing what we discover about things we would never have expected : ) - just to clarify my intention/agenda, that my question didn’t have to do with basic bass, per se, than it does with that something else which comes with the most powerful and nuanced bass frequencies, this air and simultaneous  depth which hits like live music does.

i did away with all the complications of subwoofer setup by drawing from duke’s/ralph’s advice in setting up a distributed bass array, which you obviously know of. My speakers go down to just 30db, and my subs are crossovered at 50db, so not only are they not really heard, they don’t interfere in the least with the amazing nuanced bass I already have with my field-coil drivers, and yet something comes through. It isn’t bass, but everything else about it. That’s the closest I can get to explaining why the distributed bass array is is so vital to my system.

You put it best with this - “Some had glorious bass, some had adequate bass, and some had terrible bass. It’s hard work.” - it’s the glorious sound we all seek, regardless of the particular singer or even track, and regardless of the hard work and effort put to achieving that glorious sound. It’s about the music : )

In any case, that’s what it’s all about, this discovery of things we hadn’t expected, like your discovery of Norah jones. I may be making a discovery of my own in another thread on switches and going WiFi, something I thought I’d figured out sometime back.

In friendship - kevin

@kevn - I have nothing against DBA, except those that insist it is the one and only true way.  We all have limitations and different levels of what we consider to be "difficult."  For me, I 100% do not want more speakers spread around the room.  No.  

Good for me, bass traps, EQ and placement are great alternatives.