Hi Shadorne, I dont know where to go with my reply to your post above (six above). But I must say it has me "confused". Where you wrote,
"It is pretty impressive yes but a far cry from a crushing SPL due to the fact we can barely hear 20 Hz. For comparison it would sound as loud as a 40 db SPL note at 1 Khz...a little above the rustling of leaves. The good news is that if your sub can achieve 115 db SPL then it suddenly becomes much more audible - as 120 db SPL will sound like 80 db SPL at 1 Khz - so clearly audible even above a conversation. Also there is not much at 20 Hz anyway so the biggest benefit is the lack of distortion at higher harmonics rather than any bone crushing sound.
The reality is that a great sub will NOT sound devastating on a 20 Hz pure tone at 100db SPL - is will be mostly inaudible if it is a good high quality sub!!!"
I am actually having a hard time digesting this. If you would like to try re-explaining this to me I would be obliged. I am not sure how I want to counter to those statements. Perhaps we can dissect it at some point and discuss it that way. Not trying to be argumenative, but I do belive you need to perhaps rethink this.
Or perhaps I DO!
Bob
"It is pretty impressive yes but a far cry from a crushing SPL due to the fact we can barely hear 20 Hz. For comparison it would sound as loud as a 40 db SPL note at 1 Khz...a little above the rustling of leaves. The good news is that if your sub can achieve 115 db SPL then it suddenly becomes much more audible - as 120 db SPL will sound like 80 db SPL at 1 Khz - so clearly audible even above a conversation. Also there is not much at 20 Hz anyway so the biggest benefit is the lack of distortion at higher harmonics rather than any bone crushing sound.
The reality is that a great sub will NOT sound devastating on a 20 Hz pure tone at 100db SPL - is will be mostly inaudible if it is a good high quality sub!!!"
I am actually having a hard time digesting this. If you would like to try re-explaining this to me I would be obliged. I am not sure how I want to counter to those statements. Perhaps we can dissect it at some point and discuss it that way. Not trying to be argumenative, but I do belive you need to perhaps rethink this.
Or perhaps I DO!
Bob