Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs

Rich, I listen to some cool new EMD stuff from Europe that my IEM buddies will send me.  Some info down below the 35hz range.  The Quatro's are crushing it to be honest.  One of my friends purchased 2 more of the older Vandersteen subs and set it up the same way the Swarm deal talks about and he's in love. Said he's in shock at how awesome the bass is with his Treo's.  He's said he may get the newer subs with the 11 band EQ like I have on the Quatros. We measured the bass in my room and it's pretty darn flat.  I may someday add subs, but getting Richards new mono blocks as soon as he gets them going (soon he said).  I want those in my system, lol.  Also the Thunder power cords are just about on order (need to just call to place order).  These Hurricane power cords have taken the system to a new level.  Noble, you should get a pair, lol. they will shock you I bet.  The Thunder may be all you need for the subs, especially if you are only running them that low.  

Thunder...I believe that is AC-DC song, lots of image depth on that one....
better left to the Cornwalls.....ha

LMAO...Those were one of the first high end speakers I heard when I was 9. The local guy where I bought my Yamaha YP211 TT/Grado cart, Yamaha CR 620 receiver and locally made/sold 3 way speakers carried Klipsch.   he had phase linear and Crown too.  That's what he drove them with. He also used a small tube amp, who's name I will never remember.  Corner horns were unreal.  Friends of mine got Heresey's .  I turned a lot of guys into audiophiles back in the day, lmao..

ctsooner,
     My first decent system was a pair of unfinished Klipsch Heresey and a Yamaha CR series 40 watt receiver and modest TT setup that I used through college.  I always regret not trying tubes with that setup but, if I recall correctly, I enjoyed Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel and Supertramp tunes back then at high volumes with some solid punch in the bass.

  " reat bass is amazing, so is state of the art imaging !
a 40 HZ filter is certainly low....not a ton of music down there...
what are you listening to with content down that low ?"

tomic601,
     
   Yes, a 40 Hz low-pass cutoff is fairly low.  My system is a combo ht and music system in my living room.  For ht, I'm getting a lot of content that's 40 Hz and below  both through Bluray discs played//Dolby Digital surround decoded  through my Oppo 105 and even surprisingly high quality content from the local Xfinity  hi-def cable . 
      I'm currently watching an Epix HDTV series  called Get Shorty.  The 24 bit/96 Khz PWM soundtrack is very good, often with a very realistic drum riff in the background.  The drum kit seems to be in the room front and center.  I believe it sounds so realistic because the AK Debra dba system's bass is so accurate, dynamic and articulate/defined; providing natural and life-like bass which makes it very easy to distinguish the heard and felt bass of the kick drum from the sharp and taut bass of the tom-tom.  I also believe there are higher frequency bass harmonics being reproduced by my main speakers, Magnepan panels running full range, that contribute to the very realistic sound stage illusion.
     For music, I don't listen to pipe-organs but my music collection, consisting of ripped Redbook 16 bit//44 Khz CDs and 24 bit/96 Khz hi-res  WAV files on a NAS 10 TB hard drive, must contain deep bass information because I'm hearing the Debra's deep bass contributions consistently. on my music: Fat boy Slim, Parov Stelar, Jennifer Gomes and various Rock/R&B/Blues/Jazz all on CD and hi-res.

Tim 

HT
I understand now....

I guess I was spoiled, my first pair of speakers were Infinity....and a class A Onkyo amp - stayed class A to 7 watts, Denon table and a very nice Grado.....