Criticizing Subwoofers! Useless in Music...

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I have heard a lot of people saying that if your system doesn't contain a subwoofer,woa,it automatically sucks!
For no reason! What the...?

This is why best sounding systems are getting underated.

In my opinion a Subwoofer for Music Listening is one of the biggest mistakes ever!
Except cases like there's a need of subwoofer like HUGE rooms like Party rooms in which PA Equipment gets place,and the owner have done measurements to set it right.

If you think you know,and that's why you have a Subwoofer,well i DON'T say that you DON'T,but most people doesn't even have an idea.

Let's see some examples:


Example 1:

You have speakers that are going down to 50hz 0db,and something like 45hz with -3db.

Your speakers are going as low as a Subwoofer of the midrange category,there's NO need for a Subwoofer under normal circumstances,if you think they don't have bass,you should place them differently.

Example 2:

You have small bookshelve speakers or satellites,they aren't going bellow 100hz and you really want to listen to bellow.

As bad as it sounds,here you might need a Subwoofer.

You should get one depends on room's size and something that will match the sound of the speakers... How can you find that? Try to listen to it with the same speakers if that's easy or get one,try it,and if you don't like it you can give it back and try another one.

FAQ you:

Question: I have a Subwoofer that goes to 20hz -3db,why not?

Answer:  Because 20hz are useless in Music,there's no Music that goes that down except of Bad Recorded Music and Bass Tests.
Plus adding a Subwoofer isn't as simple as you think and most times is useless,and 20hz are needing big space to get produced,and if you don't have the luxury option of measurements your Music might become DIRTY.

Questions: 
1) My speakers are going low but there's no much bass like when i have a Subwoofer!

2) You can't listen without a Subwoofer,there's no Low Frequencies!

Answer: You have the right to like bass and listen to Music as you like,but your opinion is in the world of High Fidelity... WRONG!!!

The best is to have a system that has a FLAT Frequency Response and produce the sound close to how recorded and sound natural.

If you have a system and while you are listening to it you can notice that has Low Frequencies that can get noticed more easily than the other Frequencies,or with simple word the Bass is loud,it's.... WRONG!!!

If you add a Subwoofer because you want to have an available Bass Knob to crank it up and cover the other Frequencies,is.... WRONG!!!

If you can listen and say there's a Subwoofer,and there's a lot of Bass cause of that,that means the Subwoofer isn't set properly!!!

Of course,again,i don't say you shouldn't listen as you like,but your system wouldn't go for an Audiophile Prize.

Facts Time:

Fact 1: No matter what,you don't need a Subwoofer in Music if you have proper speakers that are going decently low,and if not,try to get bigger ones,or if you're planning to get some,get something that will fill your space.

Otherwise you can make a wise installation of a proper Subwoofer,just to fill the range that can't produced by the speakers and not to go BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!

Fact 2: If you have speakers that can go as low as a Subwoofer without any problem,for example bad Frequency Response between Octaves,if you add a Subwoofer which is matching the sound of the speakers and is set correctly so the Frequency Response of the whole system will be FLAT (excluding the room's anomalies in this example),you wouldn't notice that there's a Subwoofer playing,because the speakers there self supposed to play the same!!!

So having Subwoofers everywhere makes you look ridiculous except of ignorant,unless you like what you're doing,not that it's right!

In my opinion there's no "Right" and "Wrong" in Sound except of some Rules,but there's what YOU like.
However i don't give you the right to criticize my System,my Friend's Systems,Audiophile Systems,and give bad reputation to people's stuff and say you can't listen to those Systems because they suck and they don't have a crappy Subwoofer...
Because having a Subwoofer booming around,judging with the Rule of High Fidelity,Sound Clarity,Audiophilia,and what's good and what's not,isn't helping a system come close to the Natural Sound,but allows it to sound DIRTY by getting far away of the Flat Sound and makes the Low Frequencies vanish the other Frequencies.

Here my friends we are talking about the High Fidelity of Sound,MUSIC (Not bad Composed Noise) IS NOT Composed only with Low Frequencies,people look just ridiculous having NO MidRange and bad High Frequencies but still have their minds on how the Bass Is!