System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live

Dear @atmasphere  : I know that very weel and knowing the JC 1+ design I posted about.

Look, a really whealty friend of mine was and is in " love " with my quality level speakers so he took around 10 days of his time and fligth to Utha where he was with Wilson and Sound Labs and cost no object for him he decided  to come back México bringing with him the top of the line Sound Labs and the pair of Parasound monobloks that were recomended by the desigbner him self.

He did not comment with me nothing about but around 3 weeks with the speaker/amp in his big dedicated room invited me to listen his system ( before the Sound Labs he owned Raidho beautiful DK speakers ) and was a surprise to me to found out the SL down there and till that day we try to improve the SL quality room levels performance ( obviously with subs. ).

Well even all those he told me months latter at my place: " I really like my SL/JC but still prefers your vinatge system ".

In the other side he was a tube lover till SL designer gave the advice for the Parasound.

You already know that after owned for 10 years tubes and from some time now I'm allergic to tubes ( any ) for my system no matters what.

R.

till that day we try to improve the SL quality room levels performance ( obviously with subs. ).

@rauliruegas If you were running an amp like that, I would expect that you might want to use subs. That is a very common experience people have with ESLs and solid state in general. If you have the right amp those speakers have excellent bass on their own! To be clear I was not making an indictment on the Parasound in any way other than what you seem to be corroborating here. 

Dear @atmasphere  : After 4 months I suggested my friend try subs to look for an improvement and before that nothing was wrong with the bass but true self powered subs goes lower than what is need and SL can't goes down there.

Latter on he changed the Majestic line for the top Ultimate that sounds alittle better but with almost same problem in the low bass.

JC 1+ has no problem to handled at any SPL the Ultimate SL or any other speaker out there, problem is the SL low bass overall performance.

R.

After 4 months I suggested my friend try subs to look for an improvement and before that nothing was wrong with the bass but true self powered subs goes lower than what is need and SL can't goes down there.

Latter on he changed the Majestic line for the top Ultimate that sounds alittle better but with almost same problem in the low bass.

@rauliruegas In this statement you are again confirming our experience. The large Sound Labs like the A1 and Majestic have no trouble whatsoever playing the deepest bass effortlessly. They go right down to 20Hz. But if the amplifier used to drive them behaves as a voltage source (for example, but not limited to the Parasound) it will be found to be bass shy. This is simply because the amp can't make power into such a high impedance in the bass as occurs in the Sound Lab.

So it is common with Sound Lab owners who use solid state amps to look to subwoofers to get the bass right.

@atmasphere : Please don’t try to state what you not0 even experienced because what you posted about is that you have not the experience to listen true bass down to at least 16hz with out almost distortion and at near 120dbs. Something that no single SL can do it by it self.

Read this review where the reviewer mated with Bricasti and Pass monoblokks:

With the SL friend was the SL designer/owner who gave him the recomendation of the JC monoblocks to mates his design. Not atmasphere but the self designer: got it?

Here the Majestic specs from the SL site:

https://www.soundlabspeakers.com/majestic/

R.