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Re: Best bass

Posted by seasterl (A) on September 26, 2002 at 05:05:09

In Reply to: Best bass posted by rick57 on September 25, 2002 at 22:56:43:

Question: Would you consider yourself an audiophile or music enthusiast? If you're in the latter camp, then you stand a good chance to being happy, but if you're in the former, you'll probably spend $5-10k and still not get the coherence you're after. I dropped about $4.6k into two passive subs, a Bryston 10B crossover, and a Bryston 4BST amp, all coupled to two nice stand-mounted speakers. My room dictated how low of a frequency I could achieve, as will your room. The rest was just matching the crossover points properly to get as good a coherence as possible between subs & mains. My Bryston crossover didn't have phase ajustment, but in retrospect I would have gotten something that did. I used the Decware 12" Deathboxes (prefabricated). The 4BST was a great match, but I thought that the Coda amp (a Class A SS amp) was better matched to the Infinity Kappa Perfects in the enclosures. (These drivers have about 95dB sensitivity.) The sound was as fast as I've heard and extremely tight. I could feel every beat hit my chest with just moderate volume levels.

I'm not sure if you've heard anything like this, but it worked superbly for music and great at HT. If this isn't what you're looking for, then it's just my 10 cents worth.

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