Stereo Subwoofers for budget hifi

[MakkaPakka]

Lots.

Check out wwjd's frequency content charts from Now 38 here: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/629542-low-frequency-response-rap-pop-rock-music.html

The most extreme example being Chris Brown's Look at me now which has a lot more content in in the sub-woofer territory of 35 hz than it does in the midrange at 1khz.

So not much then if you look at the actual music tracks rather than the 'music' intended for clubs and McDonalds car parks. The last post in that thread suggests it may not be accurate anyway.

If you get a lot of sound at 35Hz what are you going to do with it? A 35Hz wave takes 32ft to develop. You could spend on a fortune on a sub that can reproduce it perfectly and listen to Chris Brown all day but it will be boomy and muddy unless you have a listening room the size of a village hall.

 

[lindsayt]

Makkapakka - look at the Avril Lavigne track and the 10 older tracks posted below the Now 38 tracks. All of them have very significant content at 35hz. Most of them having at least as much content at 35hz as they do at 1khz.

The 32 ft room for 35 hz waves is nonsense in my experience. My rooms are 24 feet long. I am able to appreciate the difference between speakers that go down to 20 hz and those that start rolling off at 40hz in my room. Also when my son plays his bass drum in my home I can hear it clearly enough. About as clearly as when he played it in the garden. Those low frequency waves certainly are there in rooms that are smaller than the wavelengths. It's like sea waves crashing into a cliff. It helps if the room is well furnished to avoid those waves echoing too much and cancelling each other out or reinforcing each other too much.