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The Encores should have plenty of bass depending on placement, cables and amplification. The Shindo's are low powered no?? Any speaker needs to be controlled and told what to do...low power may be euphonic for some types of music, but falls short for accuracy and dynamic impact. Great speaker cables that make it easier for your amps to do their work may also be a consideration, otherwise use a great sub like the fathom.

I agree with Dave. Per a conversation with Antoine over at Verity last year, he mentioned that my 60 watt Pass Aleph Os would be enough to drive my Encores in my room. I've been driving them with the X350.5 and the bass is not lacking. So this past week, I took out the Aleph Os and hooked it up to the system. It sounded anemic as in no bass, and missing some top end extension. And soundstage just kind of shrunk. Maybe the Aleph needs to be re-broken in again. But for now, I'll stick with the X350.5.

I had heard the Strat at L.A. Stereophile show a few years back driven by all Nagra gears. That demo was the one that put Verity on a short list for my speaker search. Last year, Artemis used them to demo all Artemis gear (tube amps) in a pretty large room. The Artemis may sound good, but those tube monoblocks were just not powerful enough to drive the speakers in a room that size. I could barely hear the music when I was the only person sitting in the sweet spot trying to audition the system.

FrankC

I agree with Gundam, first time i got my Parsifal Encore i feel the bass was shy with my CONRAD JONHSON PREMIER TWELVE of 140 WPC. Few months later i replaced the mono amps by a pair of LAMM M 2.2 and now the Parsifal sing starting from the bottom end up to the very high frequencies.If you look to the spec of the Parsifal they look like easy one to drive but they need clean power of high quality watts. They can full fill a large room (mine is 23 X 23).With the Parsifal if you don't hear bass it is because it is not on the record...not hearthquake shaking one but a very realistic bass too me
Hope this help, i think ading a sub could mess the fabulous mid range