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Two Channel Music Systems Don’t Need Subwoofers

Myth #4 Debunked with John Hunter


Space is defined by the subwoofer, not the speaker. 

The transcription of the video can be found below:

Myth number four 'two channel systems don't need subwoofers.’ And you get this particularly from the old guard. They're wrong and every time they hear one of our demos live, we get the, "Wow, I had no idea what I was missing." 

Take the word subwoofer off cuz I think the term is loaded. I think that, you know, for people above a certain age, it takes them back to a time when subwoofers were awful. 

Subwoofers in the '70s and '80s, that was not a high water mark for the subwoofer industry. And we've learned so much since that time. 

A two channel system needs to be full range. Subwoofers, what they're doing is restoring the fundamentals to music, which in many cases are very deep. And when you're talking about very deep, you're talking about really long wavelengths. You can't do that without a subwoofer. 

It's that simple. Space is defined by the subwoofer, not the speaker. Subwoofers can reveal things that you may have had records for decades and not realized that these sounds were buried in there. Can bring out all kinds of different layers. 

That's what great well-balanced systems with RELs can do.

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