Homage to those who are pleased with your audio rig

Very cool to see so many satisfied audiophiles. Hey you've worked hard and deserve to have this particular pleasure. I have read about so many pieces of sensational gear, it makes my head spin. But even more surprising is that music is played and you guys are listening to it. It's like the Dobbie Brothers wrote, "Listen to the music".

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We can live happy at 50 hertz....

I am....

What has surprised me is how much a hard deck of 50-ish Hz actually suffices. For music you get a long way with this, and it's certainly much more important how >50Hz is reproduced than more blindly going after added extension. Indeed, hunting for an octave lower can be an expensive endeavor, in more than sense, not least of which is potentially making matters worse for how the bass above it and in very general is presented - if not properly implemented.  

But the question presses itself: should not lower than 50Hz suffice? It's a matter of how you go about it, what your goal is and the time and effort one is willing to invest. To me it's been about weighing the potential disadvantages against what could be gained going with lower extension, something's that is also tied with the specific bass principles I've pursued and their limited bandwidths, how it may affect sensitivity, structural integrity and specifics with floor construction, the impact on enclosure size (i.e.: and inevitability with horns), and so on. A close to 25Hz tune seemed a proper balance to me all things considered. 

Properly implemented an honest octave lower than 50Hz makes a difference with lots of music and not least films, I can tell you that. 

very happy with my system. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/615

built my room in a barn back in 2004, took 10 or so years to figure out the room, but for the last 7 years it’s been acoustically stable, and a source of great joy and hours of musical pleasures every week.

i’d say my room is somewhat over the top in my quest to discover what might be possible to accomplish. and i think based on my own priorities, that i have achieved that. my approach was to assemble gear that was not performance limiting, to cover all the bases of AC power grid, noise isolation, resonance control, amplification headroom, and top level electronics, speakers and sources.

i am a music lover as well as an audiophile so also have 12,000 lps, 20 terabytes of files, and 300+ master tapes. my focus is the music.

i have upgraded sources (added Wadax digital, added 2 more tt’s) these last 7 years but at this point ready to retire and just cruise into the sunset listening. have a new cartridge arriving tomorrow, and a new tone arm in a few weeks. but those are the only additions planned.

Done, have been for a couple of years.