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<blockquote data-quote="WheresTheButta" data-source="post: 7465371" data-attributes="member: 559748">It&#039;s a common misconception that subwoofers are the place to start a SQ system.&nbsp; SQ starts with good front speakers, properly placed and installed in a way that maximizes their potential.&nbsp;&nbsp; The subwoofer only plays a tiny passband, and the most &quot;SQ&quot; thing you can do with a subwoofer is get it to blend with your front stage until you can&#039;t even notice it.For &quot;sound quality&quot; I&#039;d say the definition is reproducing the original material as accurately as possible.That means low distortion, low noise floor, no vibrations or resonances, tonal balance, having the phase/time delay set properly and resulting in good stage with a proper center and nice height/width/depth and imaging within that stage, and minimizing diffraction.There are definitely &quot;sq&quot; amps - they have low distortion, a very high signal to noise ratio, and completely neutral output with no coloration.&nbsp; They often have crossover and phase adjustments that cheaper amps won&#039;t have.&nbsp;&nbsp; These allow you to further tweak your system.For your subwoofer, there are a million threads around here that recommend various &quot;SQ&quot; woofers so I won&#039;t get into that.&nbsp;&nbsp; In order to figure out what specs the box should be, ask someone to model up a design for you based on the T/S parameters of the woofer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WheresTheButta, post: 7465371, member: 559748"] It's a common misconception that subwoofers are the place to start a SQ system. SQ starts with good front speakers, properly placed and installed in a way that maximizes their potential. The subwoofer only plays a tiny passband, and the most "SQ" thing you can do with a subwoofer is get it to blend with your front stage until you can't even notice it. For "sound quality" I'd say the definition is reproducing the original material as accurately as possible. That means low distortion, low noise floor, no vibrations or resonances, tonal balance, having the phase/time delay set properly and resulting in good stage with a proper center and nice height/width/depth and imaging within that stage, and minimizing diffraction. There are definitely "sq" amps - they have low distortion, a very high signal to noise ratio, and completely neutral output with no coloration. They often have crossover and phase adjustments that cheaper amps won't have. These allow you to further tweak your system. For your subwoofer, there are a million threads around here that recommend various "SQ" woofers so I won't get into that. In order to figure out what specs the box should be, ask someone to model up a design for you based on the T/S parameters of the woofer. [/QUOTE]

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