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More Bass

I recently purchase a pair of Legacy Signature speakers from an on-line retailer. I purchased them unheard, but I did my due diligence in researching them and I would have thought with the 7" woofers and a rated frequency response of 22-30K hz, there would have been a bit more bass (although there is a couple of tunes I have played where there is some bass that is really deep and sounds all garbled, very weird, but I just won’t listen to those songs,I guess).

I bought floor standers so I wouldn’t have to deal with the hassle that goes along with setting up subwoofers, also with all the space they take up and the negative WAF that goes along with them.

They are a little bright on the top end, but I’ll blame that on my room, it probably needs more treating, just limited on funds at the moment.

If I thought I needed subwoofers, I'm thinking I might have bought a pair of Fritz bookshelfs and a pair of subs, for probably less than the Sigs.

The price of Legacy subs is over the top for me, so do you think there is any way to get more bass without subs or are there any subs that are a bit smaller, that might do the trick as I am pretty limited on space (and funds as previously mentioned!) Thanks

 

 

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norton
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My speakers are similar to yours in specs anyway and since I'm a bass lover and rarely use my sub, I just use the tone controls on my pre-amp and get all the bass I want and can handle. Problem solved.

I personally don't believe in speaker "break-in" and think anything will change sound wise but know a lot of people do.

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jayctoy
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When I don’t get enough bass, I will look on how much power the speakers needed, even cabling , room and speakers placement.

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jayctoy
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Norton some speakers do change after break in some don’t.

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navyachts OP
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From Coda:

"There should be no brake in for the amp or the speakers.  With the efficiency and impedance of the speakers there should be enough power with the V1.  We have had Whisper, Focus, and Signature on site. I found that the Sigs were more balanced.  They had good bass but not overpowering.  Whispers were also balanced.  The Focus on the other hand had a more enhanced bass.  I think it is expectation and the speaker.  Perhaps the Focus?"

I really don't want the hassle, expense and the size by moving up to the Focus... UGH!

 

jetter
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@navyachts

thanks Eric, for some reason when I click on the link you provide (as with some other links here) I don’t get redirected.  Any tips?

Same thing with links started happening to me about a month or two ago.  The way I can make links work now is to right click on the link, and select "open link in new tab".

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