Just my two cents. I have owned and or heard many speakers of all types over the years as I used to work as a high end audio dealer in the 90's and have always been around audio. To me and some of the people that have good ears for sound, I really think it is the years of hearing box speakers and live rock concerts that have slow, overly bloated, one note style bass that people get so used to it that when they hear a real live setting or speakers like the Spatials they think they have no bass. In reality the bass is very fast on these speakers, in fact much quicker without hanging sound than other speakers. That allows the bass to better integrate with the mids and highs like a real live setting that is set up right should be. Anyone that has heard a live performance that is not overly processed or amplified and boosted will know that I am talking about. Most people that have only heard reproducted music on cheap systems or cheap headphones their whole lives kind of freak out when they here a real bass drum on a drum set for the first time because the bass is fast and actually has a tone to it. It is not a boom or thump that is like a lot of speakers and mastering portray it to be. I have played in bands and played instruments most of my life and to me the Spatials reproduce bass drum and bass guitar better than any other speaker even close to their price class. Some people that listen to electronic music might have issues with these speakers because the music they listen to itself has non instrumental electronically produced bass that is not instrumentally natural anyway but that is a whole other topic
