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should be close enough together to achieve proper "coupling" of the midrange ribbon driver. Coupling is desirable in the lower frequencies from the
If you find there isn't enough deep bass, your first remedy is the volume control on the woofer amplifier. This has several limitations. First, turned up too high, you may get some distortion on very low frequencies or you may overheat the amplifier.
Push the woofer towers back towards the rear wall. This will increase the coupling of the woofers to the room. Do this procedure in small increments (approximately three inches at a time) and return often to the recordings you have used to adjust the front to back depth and soundstage properties of your system. It is easy, yet unproductive, to go too far in one direction (and if you move the woofer towers too far from the rear wall you may lose low bass extension).
Secondly, you may make the mid bass produced by the top of the woofer out of proportion with the mid bass produced by the bottom of the midrange ribbon. This would tend to sound bloated or thick in the mid bass regions.
Another good rule of thumb is to first set the volume control of the woofer towers for proper midbass rather than low bass. The theory is that if the midbass is correct, then the low bass should be very close to correct. If the midbass is proper and the low bass is still not right, here are some other suggestions.
A good balance between proper low bass extension and a deep and spacious soundstage needs to be established to optimize your new speaker's performance.
In order to achieve what the speaker is capable of we suggest you focus your efforts on a proper balance of soundstage elements that includes information beyond the left and right sides of the speakers, front to back depth well behind the speaker, excellent focus of instruments and voices with proper vertical information and mid bass fill.
A Genesis loudspeaker system correctly set up, can and should provide a soundstage that is wall to wall and with pinpoint focus,
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