Speakers with deep/powerful bass

I was with my friend George Bischoff who was the main designer of Scaena speakers at Harry Pearson's years ago. The Scaena were line sources with planar tweeters and dynamic mids. The woofers were powered modular 18" woofers with equalization(actually they rolled off from 180 Hz but were rolled in about 65Hz and equalized flat to about 16 Hz and yes it took hundreds of watts). I believe Harry's set had 3 sets of bass modules.

Anyway we were playing a cut from a CD with music from the sound track of a movie called Lost World. The cut we used according to Harry had a real volcano in the trach that went down to at least 16 Hz. Harry liked loud. And as the cut played I looked at Harry's and my friend's eyes and they were like saucers. I could tell they were waiting for flying woofers. But all we got was tons of very tight loud bass.

I got a copy of the CD and have tried it on multiple systems that claimed they went DEEP. But nothing, so far, has come close.

GoldenEar Triton One.R's. 

Cerwin Vegas! 

Totally agree - classic L100s and cerwin Vegas were called party speakers for a reason. 
 

the track I like is “coming in from the cold” intro by bob Marley. It’s by big bass speaker test track. 

I’ve rattled a few things on the wall with Klipsch Cornwallis.

@mastering92 ,

+1 

older Vegas are rock/metal monster machines! Even though they are labeled as efficient I’ve found they really come alive with some real power. 

I like my older JBL's. I have a pair of L100T's and a pair of L100T3's. Even at low volume I can feel a can of soda vibrating in my hand when listening. At high volume pictures hanging on the wall have crashed to the floor. Got rid of the pictures, LOL!

Yes, all the time. Legacy Audio Focus SE’s. They’ll rattle windows if you let them.

roxy54 - You helped me find Enya's song Boadicea. I love it!

I used to have a pair of TDL Monitors which were supposed to be capable of bass output below 20 hz. When I had owned them for a while, I was entertaining friends one evening and playing the first Enya disc. It was a soft. slow tune, but suddenly there was a subterranean tone, likely from a synthesizer that made it feel as if the floor was going to give way beneath us, and the music wasn't even loud.  

some Meridian dsp 8000's really try to push the walls off the foundation. a pair of usher be20 dmd's also overloaded my room with bass.

Yes, with vintage Cerwin Vega tower speakers. More woofers = better.