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In Reply to: EQ and subs - preliminary results posted by bartc on January 2, 2009 at 07:30:57:
Thanks for the complement ...
... but I think you have taken "cheap sub" to a level well below what I had in mind.
To me a $500 list price subwoofer is a cheap subwoofer.
When you go below $500 list price, your risk of buying a ported subwoofer whose port tuning is deliberately set too high to produce a bass peak that makes the bass sounds louder (but not better) begins to increase.
Inexpensive sealed subwoofers wouldn't have that problem, but inexpensive drivers with small excursions (XMAX) mean you don't get a lot of displacement for your money (and without a port, bass from one inexpensive driver in a sealed enclosure is likely to decline 12dB/octave below 30 or 35Hz.)
However, in most rooms an inexpensive subwoofer combined with a $100 digital parametric EQ can produce a much more accurate bassline at any ONE seat, than any unequalized sub at any price.
Limited maximum SPL, and little audible output under 30Hz., are the risk when using a cheap subwoofer, even when it is designed well.
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Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"
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Follow Ups
- "You can often get better results with EQ with a cheap sub than with an expensive sub without EQ" - Richard BassNut Greene 07:55:17 01/02/09 (5)
- "Cheap" is a relative term, when it ain't fightin' words! LOL - bartc 08:11:09 01/02/09 (4)
- "my el cheapo KLH 120W 10" ported sub is about as low as they go." - Richard BassNut Greene 08:53:38 01/02/09 (3)
- I meant low as in cost! - bartc 09:45:11 01/02/09 (2)
- "I really wouldn't want another KLH in my room as my wife would go bananas" - Richard BassNut Greene 13:46:21 01/02/09 (1)
- My wife would crack up at that suggestion - bartc 15:22:45 01/02/09 (0)
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