Subwoofer Craze

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Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Viperoni


The sheer lack of dynamic compression of that system would be mind boggling.
It would really be an experience to say the least.

This coming from a guy with 2 18's in a sealed box running off 2kw RMS, in a wagon

Compression whether in the recording or from the playback system running out of steam is bad - utter evil - satan - 666, etc. :|

This may not sound very special on most systems, but ones with low end wallop, it comes to life very well and gets the air moving.

You know it's getting loud when you look at a window that's 1/2" thick fire tempered glass and you can see a reflection of a light moving like some invisible ogre is pounding relentlessly on it. :Q

All these new framed pieces of art are shaking on my walls now

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Viperoni


The sheer lack of dynamic compression of that system would be mind boggling.
It would really be an experience to say the least.

This coming from a guy with 2 18's in a sealed box running off 2kw RMS, in a wagon

Compression whether in the recording or from the playback system running out of steam is bad - utter evil - satan - 666, etc. :|

This may not sound very special on most systems, but ones with low end wallop, it comes to life very well and gets the air moving.

You know it's getting loud when you look at a window that's 1/2" thick fire tempered glass and you can see a reflection of a light moving like some invisible ogre is pounding relentlessly on it. :Q

Yes, very nice sample.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Thats really incorrect. In the driver world there is still very much a tweeter, midrange, mid-woofer, woofer, subwoofer. Each has their place...

Uh...not really, not in general consumer applications...and since that is what we're talking about....

I'll just leave it at that.

Yes really.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Skotty
The other day I was looking around to see what kind of home stereo speakers there are. Oddly, I couldn't find any speaker sets that had large woofers (most had nothing over 6.5" tops). Some of them (maybe all, I don't remember) you could get separate subwoofers for.

So then I was thinking maybe I would just build my own when the time comes. A set of nice tweeters, midranges, and a couple of 8", 10", or 12" woofers, with some nice crossovers. I looked around at Crutchfield and what did I find? No woofers to be found. Only subwoofers. Where are the woofers?

Now originally, a subwoofer was a separate speaker for hitting the really low bass notes, and they were dual voice coil. Did they just rename regular woofers "subwoofers" because the name was popular? If not, where did all the woofers go?

You are checking consumer places not audiophile.

How about these:

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/klipschorn.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/belle-klipsch.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/heresy-ii.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/heresy-iii.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/la-scala.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/la-scala-ii.aspx

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/cornwall-iii.aspx

Awww, you warm my heart. I have two Cornwalls as my mains and two Heresy's as surrounds. But, let me say that I might not choose these exact speakers today with most of my music listening coming from CDs. Back when I bought them LPs was where it was at. In fact adding a sub to my system was done to add some warmth to the system.


Getting back to the OP, I couldn't agree more with vi_edit's post. People are enamored with their sounds backing up their visual stimuli. Most people are not taken with all the subtleties of a well balanced system. People don't want their sound systems to paint a picture in their mind. They want loud without distortion.

Most people do not even want to try to discern separation of sounds from 90Hz to 500Hz that give such a definition to the sound stage.

 

[Howard]

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