Do my ears deceive me??

I love a V equalizer curve, and bump up the bass and treble a bit on my home/car systems.

I either blew the tweeters or crossover on my 836’s, so they are in for repair.

I do need an equalizer. I tip the treble and bass up on most music. And even sometimes from song to song.

      What you’re doing by boosting the Bass, is clipping* your amplifier.

                *That’s what took out your tweeters and/or crossover.

      If your speakers and amp can’t keep up with your tastes in reproduction: just buy a powered subwoofer for your home listening room, reduce the curve/boost on the system's low freqs and remove that load from your main amp(s).

@fenderu2 ,

I just noticed GoldenEar Triton 1R are on sale all over down from 4K each down to 2.5k. All the bass you would likely ever need and GoldenEar IMO does a nice job making the speaker sound of a whole. In other words the transition from the powered section is smooth to the mids and highs. They already have a small lift in the upper treble and you can dial the bass in to your preference. I would jump on those. 

+1 for what @rodman99999 just said.

  I'm still waiting on the verdict for my Focals.  The Parasound puts out 250w/channel.    I've listened at loud volumes millions of times, and don't think I was pushing them any harder than I did in the past.  But at the end of May something gave out.   So I figured it must be due to age, as they are about 13 years old.   I forgot to mention, but I do have a Klipsch SW-12 subwoofer in the system that I've owned since 1993.   And it still works and thumps perfectly.  But I don't use it every day either.    I did run the 836's as Large, so they were getting the full audio spectrum.    I probably only turn the sub on once or twice a week, if I'm listening really loud.   Buy 80% of the time it's off as the speakers have adequate bass.   I probably just need to keep it dialed back a bit.   

Have you checked out any Spendor speakers?I own the D7,dynamite speaker.