Originally Posted by
Ali Tait
For me,it's the way I perceive the bass.Since getting the ESL III's I find I can hear the boxy colouration in the bass on every box speaker I listen to now.Bass from cone speakers in boxes has a relatively high distortion component.A lot of people like this,as it can give "grunt" to the bass and contribute to the listening experience.I include myself in this in the past.But now,having lived with the statics for a while,I find the colourations too intrusive now.The statics may not give hughly deep bass,but I find them quite adequate now I have become accustomed to them,and it is also clean bass,with very low amounts of distortion.I think this is why a lot of people perceive statics as being bass light,as they are not hearing the "grunt" (i.e. distortion) that they are used to hearing from box speakers,but some do actually go fairly low.