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Another Silly Speaker Advice Thread

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Well I did some informal testing (hooked up to my zen touch in the living room) of the Klipsch and was very impressed. They defintly have better highs than my old z-560's but the bass lacks some "ooomph". I played my classic test track from stabbing westward (save yourself) and they did not have the gut rumbling bass of the logitechs but man oh man, flute solo's never sounded so pure and crisp. These will make an excellent home theater for the time being, can't wait to get them over to the new place and all hooked up. thanks for all the advice people!

-spike
 
Less boomy and not as powerful, at least not to my ears. The logtiechs have a more pleasing lower hum during that stabbing westward song. That kind of hum that you can barely hear but feel. The klipsch don't quite have that power, at least not when I was testing them.

-spike
 
some people actually listen to music with much too much bass. This is taken to the extreme with those rattliing car trunks, you know what I mean.

You might have been getting too much bass with the logitech. Generally music has very little "gut rumbling" type bass, this usually occurs from too high of a sub level. I am NOT saying this is definitely true in your case but it might be. I notice that with my system music usually doesn't blow me away with bass but movies will(obviously movies have a LFE channel while music is just stereo) However, even with DD encoded music, bass is not overwhelming and in my opinion it shouldn't be.

just a little rant from me
 
I honestly don't know about this as I am pretty much a n00b when it comes to sound. I do know that one of my old roomates had a HT 5.1 setup of AIWA's (sp?) and when he played this particular song he had the same, deep powerful bass I am getting out of my logitechs.

And just to clear things up, I was testing these speakers on the ground in my living room hooked to my MP3 player with the sub in the middle of the room. My logiteches are hooked to my onboard soundstorm audio, are chest level on my desk, and the sub is in the corner for best bass reverb. My quick testing was not exactly equal but sufficed to help me decide to keep the speakers. I will do a more even test later

-spike
 
if you were impressed with AIWA's bass then chances are you are use to hearing boomy overpowered bass. AIWA is not exactly a company know for its speaker quality. Like I said, in music you should not(for the most part) be rumbling walls with the exception of some rap and hip hop. Very few instruments play that low to be able to cause this so its mainly a synthetic note generated for the sole purpose of causing a "DAAAAAAMMMNN" factor.
 
Originally posted by: rleemhui
if you were impressed with AIWA's bass then chances are you are use to hearing boomy overpowered bass. AIWA is not exactly a company know for its speaker quality. Like I said, in music you should not(for the most part) be rumbling walls with the exception of some rap and hip hop. Very few instruments play that low to be able to cause this so its mainly a synthetic note generated for the sole purpose of causing a "DAAAAAAMMMNN" factor.
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I don't think your quite getting the point. This was not "rattle the wall" Bass, it was that perfect, low, almost inaudible bass that causes the guts to move. It was smooth bass without being overpowering and harsh or rattly. I know I don't know squat about music but I do know when something sounds natural to me and this did.

And that last sentece is partially wrong, you get some awesome bass from a good quartet, especially with a powerful sub. Natural resonance can be just about as deep as artificial, at least to my ears.

I do like boomy bass to some extent, especially in gaming, but it is not a neccesary thing. All I was trying to say is that to me, the bass on the Klipsh does not go as deep or as powerful as that from my Logitechs. This is no slight to them but the straight fact, it's probably caused by the much smaller sub in the Klipsch setup.
 
Originally posted by: Spike
Originally posted by: rleemhui
if you were impressed with AIWA's bass then chances are you are use to hearing boomy overpowered bass. AIWA is not exactly a company know for its speaker quality. Like I said, in music you should not(for the most part) be rumbling walls with the exception of some rap and hip hop. Very few instruments play that low to be able to cause this so its mainly a synthetic note generated for the sole purpose of causing a "DAAAAAAMMMNN" factor.
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I don't think your quite getting the point. This was not "rattle the wall" Bass, it was that perfect, low, almost inaudible bass that causes the guts to move. It was smooth bass without being overpowering and harsh or rattly. I know I don't know squat about music but I do know when something sounds natural to me and this did.

And that last sentece is partially wrong, you get some awesome bass from a good quartet, especially with a powerful sub. Natural resonance can be just about as deep as artificial, at least to my ears.

I do like boomy bass to some extent, especially in gaming, but it is not a neccesary thing. All I was trying to say is that to me, the bass on the Klipsh does not go as deep or as powerful as that from my Logitechs. This is no slight to them but the straight fact, it's probably caused by the much smaller sub in the Klipsch setup.
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Not sure what type of quartet you are talking about but human voices generally don't push gut rumbling level. About the only instrument that really does would be a organ. Saying that the Aiwa's were producing perfect bass should never be said lol.

But its up to you what you like. To really know how it is suppose to sound you would have to calibrate your sub with a SPL meter, but most people don't care enough to do that.

Enjoy your setup. It will sound more "full" once the sub is in the corner
 
im looking into thye klipsch 2.1 set after readin this thread.

btw in the UK i can only find the ugly silver round sattelite klipsch and not the nice simple black ones.

which ones sound best the ugly silver round ones or the black rectangular sats
 
I have also heard that the other Klipsch model is not as good as the standard promedia's. Do you have a link that shows they are the same speakers with different packaging?

-spike
 
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