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In Reply to: bass vs imaging: is there a tradeoff? posted by av99 on December 11, 2006 at 01:57:29:
Imaging is dependent on the linearity of a system's lowest registers. What gets sticky is the lower the speakers go, the more-difficult it is to attain bottom-end linearity at reasonable volume levels....Amps, recordings, and speakers exhibit the most compression in the lowest ranges. The symptom is the music sounding loud.... But if the system doesn't sound overly loud with the volume turned up (you merely hear everything in the recording), the system is performing well.
But this is dependent on a good recording. Telarc/Soundstream LPs and recordings like Bela Fleck's "Cosmic Hippo" provide good tests for bass linearity.
So if the system reaches into the deep bass, yet has superior linearity in that range, the system will image just as well as, if not better than, a system with limited bass extension.
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