Broadly speaking, the range of low frequencies - the bass - is from 20 to 300Hz the middle frequencies, aka the midrange, go from 300Hz to 4kHz and the high frequencies, or treble, from 4 to 20kHz. The typical range of human hearing, aka the audioband, runs from a low of 20Hz to a high of 20kHz. Since the quality and quantity of bass are crucial to a system’s ability to deliver a truly satisfying listening experience, for this month’s column I tried to find the answers to these questions through some listening experiments my wife and I conducted while isolating ourselves at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. How much bass do you want your system’s sound to have? A lot? A little? Whatever’s “normal”? But do you actually know how much bass your system reproduces in your room, or how smooth it is - that is, how devoid of peaks and valleys caused by room modes? What’s the ideal amount of bass? Is there an ideal amount of bass for most listeners? Is the amount of bass affected by the type of music played?
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