Being of the younger generation, I like a lot of bass, but I also adore old vintage gear. Are there any vintage floor speakers that can provide a lot of bass? I have a modern system and as we all know, we have the subwoofer to handle that, but the old receivers do not, like the SA-400 and the SX-1050 I have. I know someone out here has some knowledge of speakers that can handle the bass Im looking for. I appreciate it if someone can give me some models to look for in the wild and or ebay or even here on the BT...
Thanks all!
You say the SX-1050 does not have a lot of bass. If that is true, your SX-1050 needs some serious repairs (10Hz-50kHz with serious headroom). Second to the 1250 it is probably the best vintage Pioneer in headroom and ability to drive hungry speakers.
So in addition to the last two postings: What do you consider "a lot of bass"? Is it just a lot of thump like you get from car-audio? That's probably going to be a subwoofer, although high-quality isn't necessary there just a high power HT sub or sub pair.
If you want a lot of bass, there are a lot of speakers that will produce a lot of bass, some of the old Cerwin-Vega! speakers were famous for putting out a lot of party bass, loud and strong. Many vintage JBLs, Pioneer, others that have been mentioned here also.
If you want a lot of LF bass (below ~35Hz or so), and especially
accurate musical bass, this is a different question. There are few vintage speakers that were designed to produce these frequencies, and even fewer that could do it accurately (and therefore are not cheap). For this I suggest a proper
musical sub, with a crossover to high-pass your mains and low-pass the sub(s) so that you're not compounding nor cancelling the low-frequencies.
Also note that low-frequencies do not require large woofers. It can require high-excursion woofers, and typically larger boxes if ported, but large woofers have nothing to do with frequency (but do have something to do with the amount of air moved and therefore how much room they will fill).
So, is it lots of party bass (just buy some big CVs and turn up the bass) or accurate musical bass? Tchaikovsky or Deadmau5?