Talk:Subwoofer

message: This is not a common term on Google.  I mostly found this Wikipedia article and its reverberations.  The source given for death burp is itself kind of rummy, what appears to be an offhand remark in an enthusiast forum, even if it is straight from the horse's mouth.  This term is a neologism so far as I can see with respect to sources of record, and probably should be removed. — MaxEnt 19:29, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added that bit, where Danley says "target 94 dB at 250 meters is not the essentially fictional 'burst' or 'peak SPL' nonsense in pro sound, or like the 'death burp' signal used in car sound contests." I know that those words you question are not enough for an article on Wikipedia, which is why you do not see me trying to start Death burp. In context, though, their appearance is perfectly suitable—the phrase captures Danley's opinion very colorfully and the whole sentence conveys his disgust with subwoofer contests in which the drivers destroy themselves trying to get loud. It is a measure of why he designed the way he did. As far as it being a neologism, Danley himself placed the quotes around the parts he wanted to emphasize as worthy of contempt, so his use of the term is equivalent to his dismissal of it. Me, I love the full quote, and wouldn't change a hair. Binksternet (talk) 19:52, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Death burp

message: Should anything about the giant 50 inch subwoofer that the mythbusters built (that hit 160db) go into this article?
It was pretty epic
Wildm4n (talk) 19:17, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythbusters Subwoofer 

message: Neat to see that this is a good article. It seems like it lacks some referencing, which I am assuming was let go a little on this due to copious amounts of allegedly professional insight on the topic, as is common with these genre of articles here. Almost every such article here has some well formatted parameter equation worked into it that I'm sure helps it's dazzle as well as confuse any reader or reviewer. I do think that the main picture should be more generic, not showing a brand name product on a coffee table, and should include the enclosure as this is the one type of man-made noisemaker that is most absolutely dependent on the box it's in as well as the other parts of it's system, adding to it's nature as the most impractical, unnecessary, and inefficient member of it's family of apparatusses. Daniel Christensen (talk) 04:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA status 

message: A search for the term "bass cannon" redirects to this page. I think people who search for it are looking for the song. Can we fix that?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by FruitSalad4225 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bass Cannon" 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Question_about_subwoofers
:Iskánder Vigoa Pérez (talk) 15:22, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: help with relation in the size of drive/magnet

message: I think saying 20hz is standard in the consumer market is inaccurate. 20 hz would only be for very high end, expensive subs
:I agree with this totally. Though it will be hard to find reputable sources, around 30Hz and up would be more accurate. B137 (talk) 23:01, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  20hz 

message: While this is also not an optimal image in terms of quality and relevence, I think it is better than the current one as it is more brand name neutral. Also "subwoofer" often refers to the enclosure as well as driver. B137 (talk) 23:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the current image should be replaced. But I do not thing the proposed image is suitable as the main image for this article. It, again, does not show a subwoofer. It shows parts of one. (Another problem with the image may be that the background structure is hard to explain - probably not relevant as content or context of image content, but not neutral enough to be obviously not relevant.) - Volker Siegel (talk) 12:53, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Working on a montage but still looking for a good "commercial" or DJ image to replace Flickr image with different license. B137 (talk) 21:18, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Under the cinema sound section, it should clarified whether or not it refers to high volumes in the middle and upper frequencies being too loud due to main speaker volume not being limited by low frequency performance. Furthermore, in the description of the cardioid pattern diagram, it should be further explained that this represents the two-dimensional theoretical space, in this case the x-y coordinate plane, and that in real life it would not be this symmetrical and perfect. B137 (talk) 20:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Subwoofer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120723231911/http://www.home-theater-designers.com/glossary.html to http://www.home-theater-designers.com/glossary.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 05:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I think that all of the information of the page is adequately backed up by proper sources. The edits done to the page have also made it more accurate and more clear to the reader. The information is also neutral, one of the edits of the picture to not show a brand name helped with this. Great job! Robyduby (talk) 04:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evaluation 

message: The Cerwin Vega website hosts a PDF guide that talks about long-, medium- and short-throw subwoofers. Their guide, written for musicians rather than sound engineers, is wrong about throw, and should be removed from this article. For the great majority of subs, low frequencies travel some distance through air depending on how much power was applied in the first place. The only variation on "throw" is when the subwoofer enclosure, or the arrangement of subwoofers into an array, has some amount of directionality, with more SPL sent forward, and less SPL sent to the sides and rear. 
I don't have a source saying that CV's concept of "throw" is a bunch of nonsense, but on the other hand, the CV page can be seen as an outlier, and it can be removed as a very minor viewpoint, not supported by more authoritative sources. Binksternet (talk) 22:26, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Throw" of subwoofers 

message: I'm planning on adding these at some point. Thoughts...? Anamyd (talk) 10:22, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tang Band RBM drivers, isobaric loading, transmission line enclosures, bass reflex tuning 

message: Some misinformation here. The low E on a bass guitar is about 41Hz, but the pickup placement means that the first harmonic at ~80Hz typically dominates the sound, relatively little fundamental content is 'filled in' by the brain based on information in the other low order harmonics. This means that a relatively poor LF performance (e.g. from a 2x8 setup with a lower limit of 60-65Hz) can be acceptable for many types of music.
That said, detuning (to D or lower) is commonplace, so the majority of larger bass speakers will handle notes with a 'significant' content below 41hz. Five-string basses with a low B, 31Hz are regularly encountered and any bass setup worthy of the name should be able to reproduce a reasonable sound from such a string but will rarely have a response right down to 31Hz - most quality bass cabs will be tuned to have a -3dB point between 41Hz and 35Hz. This will usually be achieved with the main driver, not with a separate subwoofer, possibly supplemented by a tweeter. Multi-speaker combinations such as 4x10 and 2x12 are popular, but this is usually to achieve higher efficiency rather than increased bass. Designs have greatly improved in the last decade or so and the use of 15" speakers is greatly declining as speakers with 10" and 12" drivers are proving more practical while equally suitable for bass guitar. High pass filters are chiefly used to reduce handling noise etc. and might have -3dB points ~30Hz with a slope of 12dB/octave. HPFs tuned higher are not unusual. Stub Mandrel (talk) 20:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bass instrument amplification 

message: Leiden is one of the best insulated tumbler in this world 118.101.171.156 (talk) 12:05, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leiden