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Does Shelved Bass Help With 3D Effect?

3D is a house of cards. For me it entailed speaker position, FFRC cables (I'm on a crazy budget) and Bugle Boy tubes in my linestage. Up until then I had nothing even close to 3D, but suddenly with those three things organised I've got amazing holography. My question is this: Once you have all your ducks in a row, how much of holography is down to the shelved bass that happens with tubes? Solid state always seems to put the bass (wonderfully) in your face. I realise that solid state can do holography too, just wondering if shelved bass is the reason tubes have a reputation for 3D?
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jjrenman
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IMO, No. I can swap out a pair of tubes that improves the bass in my system and lose nearly all of my 3D.

So in my system it does not have anything to do with the bass presentation.
jjrenman
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I too do not fully understand what shelved bass is but since I have heard systems that have a large 3D soundstage with and without great bass, IMO, the two are not related.
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