What's the difference between a woofer and a subwoofer?
Answers: Let's add up some answers. The subwoofer is supposed to fiddle with the lowest freq. Subwoofer became popular because of space. To find good bass from a majority pair of stereo speakers required relatively large cabinet. Since the loewer freq. are non-directional ( has to do beside wavelength ) you can use smaller speakers to handle most of the nouns and a subwoofer, which is less critical something like placement for the bass. This give more option for placement. The higher the freq. though the more directional the nouns. So a subwoofer really should be used to suplement the bass on smaller speakers. Many systems though have subwoofers that shift up to 250 Hz and even higher. This is large enough to be slightly directional and can affect the stereo picture.
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Generally, a woofer is in a tower speaker, but put one and the same driver in a separate cabinet and it become a sub-woofer.
If you have a "3-way" speaker, it contains 3 drivers. They respectively produce a different set of sounds and are called:
- Tweeter
- Midrange
- Woofer
They enjoy found that the L/R position for the speakers that are good for the tweeter and midrange is not the best place for the woofer so they started putting the woofer within it's own cabinet and often beside it's own amplifier and they call it a subwoofer.
Typically a woofer will engineer higher breadth bass frequencies while a subwoofer will produce lower frequencies going as far down as 16 Hz which we can't even hear.....but we can sure as hell feel it hehe.
The difference is that superior range bass is approaching a bass-drum while lower range bass have more of a deep rumbling nouns like an explosion or earthquake. Woofers can sometimes produce low-frequency rumbling bass....but not as effectively as a subwoofer....unless you rewarded like 10,000$ for your tower speakers.
A Woofer is the low frequency driver of a three approach speaker system (bass ,mid-range, treble.). In a two way system the bass and midrange are reproduced by a single mid/bass driver.
A Subwoofer is a speaker that supplements the chief bass speaker and only plays the lowest frequencies(,the lowest two octaves below 80 HZ.)
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