When it comes to bass, I’m hearing excellent synergy between my room and these BePure 2s. I listen to a lot of dub reggae, electronic dub, psychedelic dub, etc. What I love about this genre is the fat, round, powerful electric bass sound and thundering kick drum strikes.
This music puts the audio system to a test. When it sounds right, there’s no boom, no boxiness, there’s just pressure and power. It feels like the sound is emanating from the walls of the room, and every cubic inch of air space is pressurized with bass. Yet despite all this, it’s also subtle. It’s felt more than heard.
Right now, my BePure 2s are powered by a Class D amp, and Class D is known for its facility with bass control. I expected this amp-speaker combo to do well with the dub genre, and I’m not disappointed. There’s no single recording to point to, because so many in the genre can create the effect that I’m seeking. There’s a “deep” satisfaction when your soul and body are engaged with pressurized bass in this way. Again, the BePure 2s, in my room, deliver this experience effortlessly, like they could go quite a bit louder than my maximum comfort level, without losing steam.
To escape cognitive dissonance, I’m believing that this bass euphoria is enhanced by the IsoAcoustics Gaia II isolation feet that I just installed on the BePure 2s. I purchased the set of feet on the used market, but still a substantial investment. What I’m hearing is consistent with expectations created by the IsoAcoustics marketing copy, and the reports of several Gaia II users that I contacted. The experience of bass is incredibly great, but is it “better” than I what I heard from the BePure 2s on their standard spikes?
I guess the dissonance comes from the idea that the performance of a speaker created by a talented and experienced designer could be improved audibly by an after-market addition whose sonic effects were not considered in the speaker design. But, in a tale that will sound familiar to this audience, I had a nagging uncertainty that I was “leaving something on the table” by not adding these acoustic isolation feet to my system. And, as any audiophile knows, the best way to resolve said uncertainty it to simply pull the trigger on the upgrade. Let’s put it this way - I have no regrets.