I suspect that your speakers are too small to properly provide low bass in a room as large as yours, let alone full sounding bass at low volume. Even with full range floor standers you would need some means of elevating the bass level due to the F-M curve discussed above to get good bass at low levels. Despite comments to the contrary, it is possible to utilize a sub woofer - it all depends on the crossover and amp which you use on the sub woofer. My objective would be to have a sub which operated independly of the main speakers and didn't start to roll off the high frequencies until 100 hz - that way you could turn it off for high levels of playback. If you don't want to invest in a sub woofer, equalizers or tone controls are your only answer, short of buy new speakers and amp/preamp.
question re: poor bass response
Apologize in advance if this is a naive question. Unless they are played very loud, I have been a bit disappointed in the bass response from my Sonus Faber Concertos driven by NAD C370 integrated; source: Arcam cd92. However, at reasonable sound levels, the volume control on the amp is positioned only about 8:30 - 9:00. Is it possible that I'm underpowering the speakers when they're played at lower volume (sensitivity of speakers is 87dB, 1W, 1m). Would bass response improve if I switched the jumpers to the variable pre-outs and reduced the gain to the power amp, such that more power would be required to achieve a given sound level?
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