Did you ever buy too much bass?


I talk a lot about bass and integration of subwoofers in a system and I realized that I need to hear more about the experiences auidphiles have when they go buy speakers and put them in a room.  Did you look at specs?  Did you audition in the home?  Did you end up with too little or too much bass compared to what you were expecting??

erik_squires

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Bass is a strange creature. I was running a small 8" sub that only went down to 40hz, but wanted more bass, so I bought another 8" sub.

At the listening position, the bass was softer like I was in a vacuum, but as I walked out towards the edge or stood up, the bass was booming hard! Poor neighbors.

I learned the second sub activated standing waves and nulls and achieved the opposite of what I wanted. I went to one properly positioned bigger sub and now life is good again.