Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs

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.....

I loved those old Denon TT's. They looked great and were built like tanks, lol.  I used only Technic's and Stanton cart when DJ'ing or at the radio station.