Matt, it might depend on what you are playing on the speakers.... Electric bass as an example, is likely to be perfectly OK, it naturally blooms into the third harmonic while attenuating the fundamental, because of the relative shortness of the strings, and the natural inclination of the amplifiers used in the live venues.
But try to give such speakers some organ music extending downwaards into the 16,32, or 64 foot pipe ranks, or other bassus prufundus, like some orchestral string bass, large percussion, etc... and you are likely to get a somewhat unpitched bloom at the bottom instead of fundamental frequencies.
Probably euphonically pleasing to some.... Would drive me batty.
As you know, I am not even faintly in the market for new speakers. But spoiled as I am by the finely setup VA Die Muzik in my loft, I could not live with a bass compromise, as "natural" as it might seem prima face.
Rather, on purely hypothetical new speakers, I would seek even deeper bass, perhaps going down to the higher teens, still consistent with the pitch integrity and harmonic articulation that DIe Muzik are capable of delivering down to the lower twenties region.
G
But try to give such speakers some organ music extending downwaards into the 16,32, or 64 foot pipe ranks, or other bassus prufundus, like some orchestral string bass, large percussion, etc... and you are likely to get a somewhat unpitched bloom at the bottom instead of fundamental frequencies.
Probably euphonically pleasing to some.... Would drive me batty.
As you know, I am not even faintly in the market for new speakers. But spoiled as I am by the finely setup VA Die Muzik in my loft, I could not live with a bass compromise, as "natural" as it might seem prima face.
Rather, on purely hypothetical new speakers, I would seek even deeper bass, perhaps going down to the higher teens, still consistent with the pitch integrity and harmonic articulation that DIe Muzik are capable of delivering down to the lower twenties region.
G