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In Reply to: How many love deep extended bass and have the equipment to do it? posted by tubesforever on September 11, 2006 at 20:13:33:
at my listening position, though of course when you get into the low bass region, the frequency response can vary considerably from place to place in typical rooms. I listen almost entirely to classical music, and my experience is that the bottom octave (20-40Hz) rarely is important in most orchestral music. My previous speakers had a -3 dB point at 38 Hz, and I added Hsu subwoofers to cover the 20-40 Hz region. It was instructive to see how little difference it made whether they were on or off in lots of music. Of course for organ music and deep drum beats the bottom can be extremely inportant, and I'm sure it plays somewhat of a role with a few other instruments. The next octave is extremely important, though. Also, the quality of the bass reproduction is critical for realistic timber. Excessive doubling or other distortion can have a very negative effect. In short, for nearly all classical music in my experience, clean undistorted bass to 40 Hz is very important, and the bottom octave is a welcome addition at times, but not mandatory.Just my opinion, of course.
Joe
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