@torke : I have recently tried the Amatis’ (somewhat) smaller siblings, the Serafino, at home for almost two weeks. I returned them in the end because of what I perceived as a very colored sound. The highs and upper mids, while truly beautiful in their own right, were much too emphasized. The bass didn’t lack extension, there just seemed to be comparatively too little of it (along with the weak lower midrange). I have also heard a pair of Amatis for a few hours at a friend’s house, cramped in a very very small room right against the wall (so bass was plentiful there) and as far as I could tell the same basic tilted up sound signature was there as well. I’m a lover of classical and jazz music just as you and, for my ears, these new SF speakers didn’t quite cut it in terms of timbre naturalness, the BBC speakers I’ve owned (Spendor, Harbeth, Graham) being better in this regard (but also lower in resolution and with less extension both ways, not exactly in the same class, unfortunately - to be expected given the price difference). This shouldn’t be construed as me saying they are bad speakers, they do some fabulous things like those sweet and silky highs and the "musicality" and I’ve been almost obsessed with them for a few years but, on closer inspection, natural sounding they are not...
My Sonus Faber Amatis have weak bass even though I'm running ML 536s--800 w/ch into 4 ohms
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I thought the new monos would solve the problem. I still have to use subwoofers to feel like my system has any bass. I've tried speaker placement but to no avail. I realize it could be room issues, but short of packing my room pull of room treatment, there has to be something else. The drivers work, it just doesn't sound full. Should I get a different speaker? At this price, I expected more.