Quote Originally Posted by BackinHi_Fi
If I read you right you are running the speakers through your sub, I believe that this could be part of your problem, ...You were not very specific as to what kind of things you have tried so far on your attempts at matching sub and speakers. ...Unfortunately many times good sound and decor completely clash with each other.
Back,

I currently don't have a sub hooked up to my 2-channel system. I have been auditioning the Nightingales but even these, and the Swifts before them, just could not give me the deeper bass I was looking for. I used to play organ in church so I actually have a large collection of organ works from Franck, Dupre, etc. I use these as reference points. I know some would say that's not really fair, but it's something I have an ear for and very few speaker systems can do this well.

A while back I had a very nice Monitor Audio sub between my M22s bookshelves and my amps. I was using the sub's cross-over network to filter out the bass. Theoretically this was supposed to be fairly easy, but it never sounded quite right. I tried this with several other speakers with equally aggravating results. Going directly to the speakers from the amps sounded much better, but I lost all my bass. I sort of gave up on the bookshelf idea and decided to try some tower speakers again. My problem was that I really don't have a lot of room so I was focusing on small footprint speakers. I alsmost feel like I'll have to given up on them too.

Over the years my high frequency hearing has diminished a lot, so you might say that I'm biassed a bit towards the low end. But I still enjoy my music and I'm still looking for a decent full-range speaker that doesn't fill the whole room. Many new speakers have narrow front baffles, but then they are a foot and a half deep, not to mention that you need another 2-3 feet behind them. In SoCal, that's asking a lot. I have friends who do have the space (and the budgets, apparently), but I can't live at their houses...