I am looking to get more bass out of my system

Chorus II's and to a slightly lesser extent Chorus I's put out copious amounts of bass with low to medium power amplifiers. As suggested, try corner placement and make sure your sub has the proper phase setting so there are no cancellation issues.

Bill

Thanks everyone for the sage advice. Let me say I have rolled numerous tubes and have a healthly compliment of vintage tubes which I feel give a beautiful sound. Speaker placement is stacked and 8 inches from the wall. All interconnects and power cords have been upgraded and I am happy with they're impact on my system. As Bill has pointed out the chorus's do put out copious amounts of bass when asked to do so, but I would like to hear a little more bass all the time. Does anyone think a graphic equalizer would help and if so what would be the best way to wire into the system? Thanks again for your help and insights...Pete

If you are looking for more bass than is say "natural" to certain recordings, then a graphic or parametric equalizer is a reasonable solution.

If it were me, these days, I would look to do the equalizing in the digital rather than analogue domain if possible in that digital lends itself to custom signal processing needs/desires much better than analogue.

I only have mini monitors, but they are in a fairly small room. Your question implies an interest in amount of bass rather than quality of bass, but I think both are vitally important. I'm sure that some of the suggestions above will be of help, especially speaker placement and listening chair placement for deep balanced bass. However, I have a suggestion which has not yet been mentioned.

I recently added isolation under my turntable and improved my LP cleaning regimen. The cleaning seems to have lowered the system noise floor, increasing dynamics and frequency extension, both up and down. The isolation seems to have focused the added information being extracted from the grooves resulting in a more articulate, detailed and richer bass sound, with considerably more impact. Acoustic bass is now sounding much closer to what I hear from very good, coherent full range systems.

I continue to be startled by both the quantity and quality of bass improvement that these two changes produced. And the best thing is that they were not expensive to implement.

Mainsound, to answer your question about whether an equalizer will help: USUALLY it won't. An equalizer can only be used to cut peaks in the bass response. It can not be used to boost bass response.

If you were complaining of too much bass, or boomy bass, or one note bass - then an equalizer would help.

Insufficient bass is caused by a limitation in your amp, or a limitation of your speakers, or a problem with your room (e.g. if you are sitting in a null). Think about what would happen if you were to boost the bass. If your amp already struggles to deliver bass, boosting bass would cause it to clip. If it were a problem with your speakers, boosting bass would cause excessive cone movement and introduce breakup modes. If it were a problem with your room, no amount of boost will overcome the cancellation of bass at the listening position - whilst at the same time you are drawing more amplifier and making your speakers work harder.

HOWEVER, in your case, you are kind of implying that your subwoofers are not level matched to your main speakers - at least that is what I read into your statement "This system is capable of putting out the bass when the music is called to do so, but often I would like to hear a little more bass in general. There are no bass or treble controls".

If this were the case, then you need a device which would be able to level match the main speakers and the sub. You can either attenuate the main speakers, or boost signal to the sub. An equalizer should be able to do this, provided it is capable of amplifying the signal beyond unity gain. However, it would be better to use an active crossover.