The real key is matching the subwoofer to your speakers and your room.
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Myth number 2, 'Bigger subwoofers are always better.' Myth number 2A, 'Smaller subwoofers are always better.' I get both ends of the spectrum.
Fundamentally, understand that there's a bit of a correlation between the size of the driver, the size of the box. Neither are necessarily correct.
The biggest mistake most people who are enthusiasts make, I'm talking to you guys who are pretty advanced, is you over speaker the crap out of your rooms. Trying to put a 20 pound brick into a 5 pound bag is always a really dumb idea.
Get your speakers right for the room and then get your subwoofer right for the speakers and the room.
There's a thing called 'Q', right, which describes essentially the stiffness and the reactivity of the suspension of the woofer. When you have something designed to fill either a very large auditorium or an outdoor festival venue, it's got an extremely low 'Q' because what's it trying to do? It's trying to throw the sound out there.
If you're trying to keep something in a normal medium-sized room,you actually have to increase the 'Q' a little bit to have it breathe in this room, not annoy your next door neighbor.
It really is a matter of horses for courses of getting the right subwoofer to the right size speaker properly positioned in your room to get it to all work well.
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