Originally posted by PBirkett
Yep, almost all the way through the song. Can cause lesser systems to break up and lose the plot.
Actually - it's ALL the way through from the first drum machine hits - it's just more powerful during the brief break towards the end. As Henryt says, it's probably "mid bass" by his definition, but since I don't have a system with as wide a frequency response as his, it's deep to me! Either way it can vibrate the room. I stuck it on last night on the Naim CD5 and was surprised at how much bass there actually WAS on it, since the '5's bass response is, err, very tight and un-boomy, so on the face of it, bass light.
In actual fact, based on the tracks I was playing last night, I'd say that some of the people who've said Elas aren't that far removed from panels are probably right; based on what I remember of the 989 dem me and Henryt did, the bass quality on my Ela boxes is pretty good, though it's not "jump out onto the floor in a boomy overwarm bloated" style. Certainly deep bass is limited but it's still there.
Those 989 panels (even in the un-ideal conditions I heard them in) were lush - they can do rock just as well as any cone speaker I've heard. It's whether you like "thump in the gut" bass or "realistic" bass - like good controlled stuff, it's not bass light, but bass right!
Oh yeah - stuck on "Don't look back in anger" and "She's electric" on my hifi for the first time in, what, 5 years, last night to see what the fuss was about. They are VERY midrangey, but didn't sound bad at all - certainly a LOT better than I was expecting. It's hard to judge sound quality of "Be here now" without hearing all that coke running through all the tracks, so it had to be "(What's the story) Morning glory?" instead. If I'd stuck on "Definitely maybe" I'd have been stuck to the stereo for the duration - why are all their other albums so patchy and poo compared to the first???