...Also, the Swarm has a gently downward-sloping response below 100 Hz, approximately the inverse of the 3 dB per octave or so of typical room gain. I wanted to avoid an overly heavy bottom end, as that comes across as sluggishness which is not what you want when trying to blend with electrostats...
Pro recording engineers call the range around 100Hz the "mudrange".
For about 20+ years I employed speakers with varying amounts of bass, but all had generally a lot of bass & real cutoff down the high-30s or lower. Also the rooms had various bass modal problems, the last room being not so great even after several thousand dollars of treatment.
My latest room is the best I've had, pretty large; moved in 15 mos ago. The floor & one wall are no-flex slab. The speaker for about 8-9 mos has been a 2-way & only one 7" Dynaudio midbass, a far cry from the mega-size speakers had in the past, w/ multiple large bass drivers.
This current system is of course almost completely lacking the first octave, which will be fixed one of these days w/ a very special powered custom sub system. But beyond that, overall & in the range covered above the low-40s, the bass is pristine, pure & so lacking in the mud previously experience that I would never trade it for the bloated overblown sluggish midbass of the past. I previously would have thought to never desire to give up the larger & more powerful bass but now I would never go back.
I like the idea of Duke's sub's being distributed around the room to smooth output & avoid the muddy presentation often associated w/ subs. They sounded great heard in Duke's room last year.
