To SAM or not to SAM and DRC

[Soniclife]

SAM does very little here. Yes it makes the facts go deeper, but i always feel it comes with a narrowing of soundstage, and in my average shared use lounge this extra bass doesn't really sound right anyway. I also sense a slight 'softening' of the sound with SAM.

FWIW, and in your case this really isn't worth anything, when I had Fact 8s on home dem one of the things I struggled with is that there was no way I would want them without SAM, and I wasn't sure about buying a speaker that only worked with SAM, but with SAM I was very close to wanting them.  SAM added deep extension, really filling in the bottom end, and that brought a much larger acoustic with it, but it didn't do anything for the higher up edginess I ultimately decided I didn't like. Rooms are a pain, if only I liked headphones.