We go to great lengths to avoid them and achieve a seamless interaction with your equipment. Because the single most expensive commodity in speaker design is extended low-frequency response at high volume levels, we supply subs at four performance levels that allow listeners to choose just how deeply and powerfully they want to go into subterranean bass. Our least ambitious model is perfect for compact systems and small rooms. The next may serve you beautifully even with some very ambitious main speakers, and the two steps up from it in performance are designed to leave successively fewer stones unturned. Here is how it works.
Subwoofers face two very different kinds of stress.
One is the sudden and sometimes tremendous peak 'slam' of one kind or another, one of those jolts that come both in music and movies. They're the ones meant to build up reactions from awe to nervousness and fear, and they can go on for minutes at a time. Subwoofers that deal well with one of these demands may not do as well with the other, and some have trouble with both. The circuitry we have developed for all our present subwoofers is as close to ideal for these conditions as we can imagine. Put one of our subwoofers up against a typical sub that takes a clearly audible part of a second to recover from overload, or quits altogether in some situations until the coast is clear again, and we think you will hear an major difference that you will not want to give up.