audio set-up for beginners [continued]

[jhnkvn]

sometimes when we'd like to have bass, all we need is a tweeter it sounds crazy but it was discussed in wiredstate where sir hansen mentioned:

"The distinct sound and timbre of "bass" instruments as we know it - be it different sized drums, organs, bass guitars, synths etc are not purely bass frequencies but have significant amount of midrange and treble frequency content. It does not increase bass quantity per se but it does increase bass articulation, clarity and intelligibility because the added treble results to a more accurate recreation of bass timbre."

That.. depends.

50hz is still 50hz if you talk about wavelengths.

I do know what you point out though..

The best way on how to illustrate this to play something with drums -- like Hotel California and have your subwoofer play from the usual 20hz-80hz. If you disable all the speakers except the subwoofer, all you hear are the fundamental frequencies of the kick drum's lows which is around 60-100hz. However that doesn't make it a complete kick drum since a kick drum also contains other "energies" that makes it a kick drum such as the bass punch of around 100-300hz, the mids at 400-800hz, and the bite/attack at 2khz~