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Getting more bass from Altec Bolero 890c Speakers

I would like to increase the bass response (dig deeper) of my Altec Bolero 890c's speakers. They are rated at 50 watts, and according to the Back-to-Basics Audio by Julian Nathan - simply adding more dampening material would do the trick and would also increase the power handling of the speaker. Is this true? I also read in another thread here, about place a large baffle around loudspeaker, and that Altec did this on many theater models. Has anyone ever tried this with their Boleros with positive results?
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dkarmeli
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They are what they are, Boleros are bookshelf speakers. You're not going to get
deeper bass from them. You can't cheat physics, box size and the woofer's Q
factor are the determining parameters here. Applying random damping materials
will only create other problems like frequency suck out and affect the tonality.
Add a sub if you want deeper bass!

david
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