danvignau291 posts
Your 'weak bass' comment is relevant to this current 'Tone Controls' Thread
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/toole-and-why-i-like-tone-controls
your post
"Imaging is usually executed by multi-miking. Old jazz standards from the 1960's and early 1970's are the best for my tastes. A mic on stage left, a mike on stage right, and often, a mike on the soloist. Unfortunately, the bass suffers on many of these mixes, because nearly anyone had a lot of power back then for good woofs. At least try to get analogue recordings. AVOID anything early on that brags about being purely digital".
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It's not just smaller speakers, I have a pair of very efficient 15" woofers, from 1956, and often bass is recorded or purposely weak, then and now.
Jazz Bass, for me, is the primary reason to have (and optionally use) an automatic 'loudness' contour for low volume listening. I yap about that in the thread I linked.