I'll admit that i miss it as my home made Kef's only reach down to the mid 40's, that sub did mid 20's and really shook things. I had a sub in my system a few years ago (another home made job) and took it out to go in the car. Infinite baffle is preferable as it has a nice smooth roll-off with no nasty peakiness. Tight up against a wall will increase the low end and ported cabinets tend to have peaky bass with very rapid fall-off. Speaker positioning and design will play a big part in how they sound too. (even though it wasn't right) Set them up as they should have been and they sounded muffled a few hours of music later they sounded fab again as i'd gotten used to the way they sounded.Īnyway, I always have the tone controls on my amp defeated and never use EQ's or loudness as it tends to make everything sound boomy. Tweeters were about 4dB louder than they should have been but i liked the sound. Had this problem whilst building my speakers. You get used to it, so when you take it away it doesn't sound as good. So my question is, is it only audiophile snobs who demand the sound as pure as it can be. Without a sub, my Kef floorstanders sound like they're missing so much. But I'm what you would consider someone who enjoys just normal music, from classical to Phil Collins.
Now I'm not someone who listens to drum and bass all day long. But flat / direct / pure or whatever you want to call it, sounds so boring to me, I quickly go about adding bass and using a sub for the low freqs. I recently bought a new Yamaha AV receiver, the RX-A2010, which is just one down from their top of the line.Īnyway it has a 'Pure Direct' button to satisfy the audiophiles out there and as you do, and as I have done every time I buy a decent component, i go through an entire range of music along with all the different settings known to man. So I said to myself, these old guffers probably can't hear as well as me.Īnyway, now I'm 40 yrs old, and still into AV & hifi as much as I ever was as a kid, & i still think it sounds crap. Plus the older you get the less freq range your eyes have. At the time, given i was only 20, i put it down to being a punkass kid at the time, and liking my music with more bass than say a grown-up would want. I much preferred my Yamaha amp at home and REL sub, with bass added. At the time I thought anything without tone controls sounded crap, but never admited it to the customers. Who here prefers the sound of a natural sounding amp with no tone controls, no sub etc, to keep the sound as pure as possible, over music that has added tonal controls and a sub ?īack in the day, I did a stint working in a hifi shop, and all the best gear was pure, as in no bass or treble controls to play with.
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