Musical enjoyment is a highly personal thing. Bass is a good place to start with a new set of speakers, yes. But you are implying that it is of greater overall importance. That is where it gets personal.
What I was looking for first in my pursuit of great sound has changed for me drastically over the last fifty years. In the beginning bass and slam were of great importance to me. My priorities now are in approximate order: tonal balance, great rhythm and pace, undistorted treble, mid range bloom, low noice floor, accurate bass… something like that. I want sound that is musical… I chased great slam for a long time and then realized it was artificial and was screwing up the bass. Treble fooled me for a couple decades. I heard high frequency distortion at live concerts, in cheap and expensive audio systems for decades. I slowly realized I was trying to get the distortion right (as in how I heard it in rock concerts in the 70’s). I started listening to actual acoustical instruments like cymbals and drums and to my utter surprise found out they did not sound like what I thought… cymbals sound like brass… a whalin trombone has a unique bite at the beginning of each note when heard live… which is now reproduced accurately in my system. Bass is part of the equation, no question, but for me just one of the pieces.
Btw, you can see my system by clicking on my user ID.
What I was looking for first in my pursuit of great sound has changed for me drastically over the last fifty years. In the beginning bass and slam were of great importance to me. My priorities now are in approximate order: tonal balance, great rhythm and pace, undistorted treble, mid range bloom, low noice floor, accurate bass… something like that. I want sound that is musical… I chased great slam for a long time and then realized it was artificial and was screwing up the bass. Treble fooled me for a couple decades. I heard high frequency distortion at live concerts, in cheap and expensive audio systems for decades. I slowly realized I was trying to get the distortion right (as in how I heard it in rock concerts in the 70’s). I started listening to actual acoustical instruments like cymbals and drums and to my utter surprise found out they did not sound like what I thought… cymbals sound like brass… a whalin trombone has a unique bite at the beginning of each note when heard live… which is now reproduced accurately in my system. Bass is part of the equation, no question, but for me just one of the pieces.
Btw, you can see my system by clicking on my user ID.