Believe me, you NEED the bass. As no audiophile can ever really ignore the importance of bass.
This is a good topic for a thread!
Bi-amping is awesome.
It is advantageous to split the four signals at line-level thru speaker management processors.
This requires 8 (eight) channels of amplified signal.
Each corner of the room have an 18 inch
JBL SR4718X 4ohm subwoofer, powered by a pair of Crown MA5002VZ 5kw amplifiers.
Play these subs too loud and they could dismantle even a well constructed residential building!
At shoulder height are four
SPA-1230 three-way Smith Pro Audio speakers powered by 4 Crown PowerLine Four amps in mono mode.
Play these too loud and they will extinguish any life forms left in the rubble after the subs are done!
This is not the point, it's the transient impact and dynamic range that this capability provides, crystal clear brutal honesty sonically, so it is paramount to have excellent and exceptional source material to play.
These beauties (Crown PL4s) replaced the two Crown MA3600VZ amps, because the 3600s have cooling Fanformers that run very loud, so loud in fact that two of these amps powering on in a small living room sound more like multi-ton commercial HVAC units coming on!
Pre amps used are two Crown (SL-2) Straight Line Twos.
Optional signal chain loops include a variety of old school quad processors, dynamic range expanders (2 dbx 4bx units), White Instruments equalizers, a pair of Aphex Aural Exiters w/Optical Big Bottom, DBX 622, a pair of Yamaha SPX-990 effects units and a bunch of other optional items not worth mentioning here.
The whole idea for me is to make it sound like all the live electrified musicians are actually in the room having fun, doing it for real ... and with reckless abandon!