I doubt many of you use Winamp, but I do (i love it's simplicity and ease of use). I figured out how to bass boost without distorting...
I'm no expert at this type of this, but since the HE400 was damn near perfect without EQ, I thought I'd just boost the 70hz for my EDM.
I noticed that doing alone (boosted by 4.0db) caused a lot of distortion. I then lowered the PREAMP dial down the same amount that I boosted the 70hz. (-4.0db). This made all the distortion disappear. I did it again by boosting the 70hz dial all the way to max (12db). Again, I lowered the PREAMP by the same amount (12.0db). A thunderous amount of bass, with zero discernible distortion, unlike when I boosted it without lowering the preamp.
I don't see an absolute downside to this, though I'm not sure if doing this causes bit resolution loss, to those who swear they can hear it... also, lowering the pre-amp meant needing quite a bit more out of my amp's volume knob.
More than likely I won't be doing this, but when I feel like being a basshead, I might demo this for fun.
I take back what I said about the HE400 not being able to handle a boost in bass. It sure as hell can. I can only imagine how well it does with hardware EQ.
I'm sortat tempted on selling my NFB5, and getting the E17+E09K, just for the bass balance control + preout to the E09K. Yeah, I'm weird like that.
h34r:
Nah, who am I kidding. I love my setup, without bass boosting.