Our goal in developing a subwoofer system was to produce a product that achieved very high sonic quality and that did not exhibit the sonic problems typical of subwoofers. In particular, subwoofer ...

Based on our new Subwoofer Room Size Protocol for determining subwoofer room size capability, we went back to our 2010 Subwoofer Shootout and tabulated the data below to see how each model ranked.

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Subwoofers achieve deep bass response even though their enclosures are usually quite small in proportion to the driver cone area because they are equalized. Without equalization the response might ...