Why do people like bass so much? - Page 7

This is roughly the frequency response I'd like, (the bass could probably be higher still but then the mids/highs have to follow a little too)

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Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD 

This is roughly the frequency response I'd like, (the bass could probably be higher still)

 

Reverse that slope and that is what i like.

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Originally Posted by bcasey25raptor 

Reverse that slope and that is what i like.

Did you ever try a pair of Grado, those seems the closest to what you want. Maybe SR325 or RS1.

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Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD 

Did you ever try a pair of Grado, those seems the closest to what you want. Maybe SR325 or RS1.

 

Listening to grados right now thank you very much.

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Originally Posted by ph0rk 

Music is boring without percussion, a rhythm.

 

Percussion needs a little oomph.

 

Further, many instruments can produce sounds into the bass registers, even a guitar, voice, or cello. They sound better when you don't have rolloff at 100 hz, if you ask me.

+1

I love bass. A real deep quality bass. I listen to a wide variety of music - Jazz, Soul, Blues, Zydeco, African, Latin, Classic and so on. And many tracks in these genres can suffer one or two things and sometimes both: realistic deep bass information left on the cutting room/mixing floor; bass-light headphones rollin' deep bass up & out of the cans. Artificially, I might add. The previous poster had it right when mentioning how deep bass can have an impact on percussion and other instruments.

I found a welcoming article (finally!) on the subject of deep bass.

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue55/bass.htm

I think people like bass because low notes convey a sense of power and presence.

Listen to the theme music for the Empire off the Star Wars soundtrack.  Now do it with no bass.  Now do it again with no treble.  Many regard that to be one of the most powerful tunes ever composed and without the depth and presence of the horns and strings it falls flat on it's face.

Listen to "All of Me" by John Schmidt.  The tune is in the middle registers but the presence really arrives when the low notes do.

I will postulate that infrasonic waves are pretty sweet stuff, and they're below the range of human hearing and directly in the range of human feeling.

Attended a Pendulum concert in which there was a rotary woofer present for flushing out the bass notes.  The venue had to undergo repairs to the acoustic batting which was stuck to the ceiling as the quantity and quality of the bass were both high enough to shake chunks off.  Try that with treble! :D

Go look up the Matterhorn around the web, makes other subs look like toys.  A sub built by the DoD, that has such infrasonic potential that when it was placed at the Los Angeles Convention Center the building architect would only allow (I recall) 20 amps to the sucker because he felt that for the frequencies it was designed to produce at even a percentage of the volume it was designed to produce them at, it could have brought the convention center down.  If you look around you can find folks impressions from standing in the opening of this sonic dreadnought, and they're well worth the read.