Do my ears deceive me??

But if it's not feasible or economical to change the room, wouldn't that be a great reason for EQ.   And isn't that why room correction was created?   I mean if Trinnov, Lyngdorf, Storm, and Anthem are doing it.   It must lead to something better.    You can always leave it off if not.   

My monitor speakers cost around $2500 and their bigger brothers (slightly bigger than my old JBLs) go for around $4500. The maker of these speakers used to be the head designer at Dynaudio and Focal-JMLab. Most of their successful models were designed by him. He just charges a more down to earth price for them, not anywhere close to $20K-$30K.

All the best,
Nonoise

I guess I tend to agree with this guy, there are high end makers but a lot of what you are paying for is luxury. I like to find stuff that punches above it’s price point.  And I will most likely be keeping the Focals once fixed, but may move to basement system.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_tEMTqR08

My ears never deceive me, but the brain that they are connected to often does.

@unreceivedogma Heh heh, that’s a good one!

Your post above tells me a lot.

"But if it's not feasible or economical to change the room, wouldn't that be a great reason for EQ." 

NO.  You have $6000 available, spend some on room treatment which will prove to be your best investment and will leave you with sufficient to buy 2 or preferably 3 or better still 4 subwoofers. Many YouTube videos explaining this. 

I can see you headed for expensive disappointment with your current mindset. There is a reason you want to try and EQ the bass levels up: You have holes in your low frequency response. Big holes.  Lots of precious bass disappearing into a black hole. How do I know? All rooms do, that is, until you do something about it.

What to do:  Buy a suitable microphone for $100 and download the free REW program. Plenty online info to help. This step will put you on the path to sanity and great sound with your existing speakers. Just do it.

How does it work:  The holes in the response are caused by low frequencies combining in and out of phase causing nulls and peaks. If the cancelling is a full 180 degrees out the null will be total. Less phase will produce partial nulls.

What does this mean:  It means a full null will produce no sound, zilch, nada. We are talking bass, bass that you want to boost with EQ. But you can't fill that hole with more power, it will just cancel with the same power and if you try, your amp will soon run out of steam and blow your tweeters!  (how this fries tweeters is for another thread)

How to sort this out:  Add bass traps and absorption panels which will flatten the response and also consider adding minimum 2 good subs but only if they sport variable phase control. SVS an excellent choice because they can be adjusted from the listening position via a simple app. Works brilliantly. Do not try this with EQ. The subs are capable of rock concert bass.

What will you hear:  Bass , Bass that was never going to be heard, even if you buy new speakers that are known to produce prodigious bass. Well how can they? there will still be cancellation issues.  Fill the holes and all the foundational musical information will be heard.  Bass traps will reduce the decay time and the subs will vastly improve everything, including mid-range and high frequencies. I know of no other way to achieve this. You will be immersed in full rewarding bass rich music of any genre.

ROOM, ROOM, ROOM is paramount.

There are no guarantees in this endeavor but I can confidently state that you will be thrilled with the results. The only last bit of advice is to totally forget EQ and get a small thick rug to place between your feet for when your jaw hits the floor. 😲