Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site isl1.ri.cmu.edu Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!isl1.ri.cmu.edu!sl From: sl@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Simon Lowenfeld) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: DAK-- everything from equalizers to ham Message-ID: <219@isl1.ri.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:50:02 EST Article-I.D.: isl1.219 Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:50:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 05:36:08 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 21 >>Along with all this talk about sub-woofers, DAK offers a very >>interesting looking sub-woofer manufactured by Cerwin-Vega. >>The sub-woofer uses the Helmholtz resonator design and... >> >"Helmholtz resonator" is the fancy title for "bass reflex" > >I'd also be interested in having someone who has experience >with one of these post their opinion to the net. > >keith I bought one of those Cerwin-Vega subwoofers from DAK a while back. Since I never had a subwoofer before I built a little switch box so I can switch it in and out. When I first tested it, I couldn't tell the difference, so I wasn't sure if they worked at all or not. Then I listened very closely to my speakers and I could hear the extremely low frequencies dissappear when the subwoofer was switched in. So I am very happy with it, considering that my main purpose to get a subwoofer was to protect the main speakers (in particular from demo cds). As for claims of better mid-range with the sub in, I really couldn't tell. couldn't tell