bass sound

[menikmati 10+ year member]

does bass vibrate? i was in my friend's car last night and his w3v2s sounded like a computer speaker subwoofer, very clean and.. well, like a computer subwoofer. is it supposed to sound like that or is it supposed to seem like the sound is vibrating?

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[Lil_KB 10+ year member]

what do you mean by that? it sounds somewhat like a vibration depending on frequency. and it makes everything around it vibrate and rattle if its somewhat loud.

 

[2loud4u 10+ year member]

does bass vibrate? i was in my friend's car last night and his w3v2s sounded like a computer speaker subwoofer, very clean and.. well, like a computer subwoofer. is it supposed to sound like that or is it supposed to seem like the sound is vibrating?

You mean vibrating the car? that sound?

 

[menikmati 10+ year member]

its not the car i know that.. it just sounds like perhaps the bass note is vibrating. you guys know how a computer subwoofer sounds (not spl wise) right? do your subs sound like that?

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

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[Duke 10+ year member]

My guess is that it was probably playing the upper harmonics of certain sounds, and not the low frequencies. Like the sound of a guitar string getting struck, but not playing the low frequency of that sound, just the upper one. Producing actual sounds, not just sine waves.

 

[jeeper07 5,000+ posts]

are you just trying to say they had good sq ??

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

Do you mean it was not playing very low? You can more easily feel the vibrations of loud lower frequencies.

I ask because most cheap PC subwoofers do not play very low at all.

 

[menikmati 10+ year member]

well it's hard to explain. im not crazy hah. its just both our systems sound so different. for example, lets say we played a 40hz note. in my car it would sound like a really fast helicopter, in his, probably like a piano note. so i'm trying to see what everyone elses is like.

 

[Lil_KB 10+ year member]

Do you mean it was not playing very low? You can more easily feel the vibrations of loud lower frequencies.
I ask because most cheap PC subwoofers do not play very low at all.

yea....but i think he means the actual sound is like an extremely loud vibration. like a higher frequency sounds, not a more spaced out, slower thumping like lower frequencies.

x2 on the PC subs....my Altec Lansing 6.5" peaks at 75-80 hz.

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

... i have no idea what the thread starter is asking. But all sound waves are virations.. so this thread is kinda retarded cuz of the vague question its about

 

[menikmati 10+ year member]

what do your bass sound like

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

well it's hard to explain. im not crazy hah. its just both our systems sound so different. for example, lets say we played a 40hz note. in my car it would sound like a really fast helicopter, in his, probably like a piano note. so i'm trying to see what everyone elses is like.

If you both played a 40hz tone, the tone itself should sound the same unless one of you have horrendous amounts of distortion. The amplitude of the tone may differ, but the tone itself should sound relatively the same.