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<blockquote data-quote="MisterDeadeye" data-source="post: 7644556" data-attributes="member: 611015">The way your subwoofer responds to frequencies across its playable range is dependent on several things, and the box is the most important factor. If you have the correct box with the correct tuning on the correct power, you&#039;ll be able to expect a similar output throughout its playable range. That is, its response curve will be relatively flat(that&#039;s the goal, anyway). If you&#039;re NOT interested in having a flat response(but again, unless you&#039;re competing for SPL, you&#039;re going to want a flat response curve), then you&#039;ll see peaks and valleys throughout the curve.I don&#039;t have an image that shows a frequency response curve, so the following will have to be okay. Imagine that the y axis represents your gain(dB level), and the x axis represents the frequency range:<img src="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16340_01/bi.1111/b32122/img/curvedline_graph.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />You don&#039;t want your subwoofer to peak at 55Hz and valley at 30Hz. It won&#039;t sound good.I don&#039;t have a comprehensive understanding of any of this, so I hope nothing I&#039;ve said is incorrect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MisterDeadeye, post: 7644556, member: 611015"] The way your subwoofer responds to frequencies across its playable range is dependent on several things, and the box is the most important factor. If you have the correct box with the correct tuning on the correct power, you'll be able to expect a similar output throughout its playable range. That is, its response curve will be relatively flat(that's the goal, anyway). If you're NOT interested in having a flat response(but again, unless you're competing for SPL, you're going to want a flat response curve), then you'll see peaks and valleys throughout the curve. I don't have an image that shows a frequency response curve, so the following will have to be okay. Imagine that the y axis represents your gain(dB level), and the x axis represents the frequency range: [IMG]http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16340_01/bi.1111/b32122/img/curvedline_graph.gif[/IMG] You don't want your subwoofer to peak at 55Hz and valley at 30Hz. It won't sound good. I don't have a comprehensive understanding of any of this, so I hope nothing I've said is incorrect. [/QUOTE]

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