loughborough
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What is the difference between a subwoofer and loudspeaker?
Semantics?
A subwoofer is a loudspeaker that only responds to low frequencies but it is both a type of loudspeaker driver
and a loudspeaker.
In English, a loudspeaker is usually a cabinet with one or more loudspeaker drivers.
But, people tend to call a loudspeaker driver and a loudspeaker, “loudspeakers”.
And you have several types of loudspeaker drivers. You have the subwoofer, the woofer, the mid-woofer, the mid-range, the high midrange, the tweeter and the super tweeter.
You also have the full range and within the full range, you have several types of loudspeaker drivers or loudspeakers.
Many people also call dual-concentric drivers such as the Tannoy loudspeakers
full range speakers when in fact they are two speakers in one
(they have a tweeter in the middle and behind the larger driver).
Ultimately they are all loudspeakers.
People just call the cabinet with the subwoofer loudspeaker driver a subwoofer and the rest of them loudspeakers.
Semantics?
A subwoofer is a loudspeaker that only responds to low frequencies but it is both a type of loudspeaker driver
and a loudspeaker.
In English, a loudspeaker is usually a cabinet with one or more loudspeaker drivers.
But, people tend to call a loudspeaker driver and a loudspeaker, “loudspeakers”.
And you have several types of loudspeaker drivers. You have the subwoofer, the woofer, the mid-woofer, the mid-range, the high midrange, the tweeter and the super tweeter.
You also have the full range and within the full range, you have several types of loudspeaker drivers or loudspeakers.
Many people also call dual-concentric drivers such as the Tannoy loudspeakers
full range speakers when in fact they are two speakers in one
(they have a tweeter in the middle and behind the larger driver).
Ultimately they are all loudspeakers.
People just call the cabinet with the subwoofer loudspeaker driver a subwoofer and the rest of them loudspeakers.
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