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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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Instead of trying different recordings which vary from recording to recording, why don’t you get a Testone CD or if you subscribe to TIDAL, you can use this Testone album called “audio line up test tones”. You can listen to a frequency at every hundred hertz for approximately three minutes long. While the frequency is running, it gives you time to move your speakers around. I like running 30 Hz and then running 20 Hz. It’s amazing how many speakers say they’ll go to 20 Hz but you here next to nothing versus playing 30 Hz and then 40 Hz and then 50 Hz. The towns keep getting louder as it’s easier for this speaker to reproduce the sound.Try it works great!

 

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Also, if you don’t trust your ears, you can run say 30 Hz test tone and use your phone or iPad with a spectrum analyzer app and have it remember the strongest signal. The iPhone app is accurate enough to tell you if you’re getting a stronger signal by moving the speakers around More so then your ears probably are. If you can play the test tones and you have a smart phone ….you have  all the tools you need to figure it out before you go spending any money

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@raysmtb1 - Thanks, There seem to be many of these apps, can you suggest which one might be best or is there a "Spectrum Analyzer for Dummies" I can find these kinda things challenging! 

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@navyachts I just found a new one that’s really easy to use and let you record your results so that you can record before and after you make a change. It’s called.”youlean LM lite”. It uses a measurement called a LUF. This is supposed to be the newest way to measure sound. You can read up on what an LUF is here.this is all new to me, I’ve just found this this afternoon. It’s very interesting if you’re trying to figure out what makes a change in the sound. I think it’s pretty easy to understand and I’m not very smart guy.

 

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@raysmtb1 - Awesome, thanks, I will read up on this. It's my day off today, so I have to cook, clean, shop, take out the garbage, then help my wife sort out her studio. I will check this out to tomorrow when I go back to work for a rest.

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