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Too much bass

Brief equipment list: Rogue Magnum 120 amps, AR LS3 preamp, Vandersteen 2c's.
The bass is overwhelming. Either source, CD or Vinyl I cant turn up the volume over 1/3 of the control knob. The music falls apart. I have had many other speakers using this combo of electronics. Proac, Thiel, Meadowlark and Magnepan.
It almost appears as the amps are clipping. But if I chose a program with very little bass involved, everything is fine.
Could my amps be clipping with these speakers? Are they a difficult load?
Thanks, Scott
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aroc
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How far is your listening position from a room boundary? I had a similar problem in my room if I was <4.5 feet from the rear wall. When I moved my chair out into the room the problem went away. Also how close to a room boundary are the speakers? One thing that helped me tune all of this in my system was to get a Radio Shack SPL meter and a Stereophile test CD with test tones. I had booms at 40-50 and 125 and suckouts at 70-80 and 160Hz.

My $0.02

Aaron
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