
Ok, I have a sub unit in which the woofer is not at all visible outside, rather it just dipped carefully inside, with a bass-port of course

What's your thoughts on it? Any audiophiles here

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That describes about 99% of the speakers I have ever heard in my life. They are designed that way to sound more "bassy" because people equate more bass with better speaker.
This one is creating a very nice boomy sound leaving the listener difficult to separate the lower frequencies produced. (
My thoughts? Cerwin-Vega 15's (circa late-1980s) all the way if you want real bass response...
It does not have a sub-woofer, instead it has a little 4.5" woofer.
The woofer cone is not seen because the enclosure is designed to make BOOMY sounds.
One note bass. All the bass is that same one note. Crappy but some people like it.
A review says the high frequencies from its 3" mid-range speakers is poor. It does not have tweeters.
I am pleased with the 2.1 speaker system I recently bought for only $25.00 for the TV in my computer room.
They lied about its output power which is only about 4W to 5W in the woofer and is about 1.5W to 2W in each satellite speaker.
Its 5" woofer is in a fairly large normally ported enclosure and produces sounds down to 40Hz. Its satellite speaker drivers are small enough to produce sounds higher than I can hear (15kHz).
With careful design you can get a bass-reflex subwoofer design to have good transient response with a smooth frequency response but many are poorly designed and have a very peaky and undamped response. Bass-reflex designs (with a tube or port) have a high output level for their size and are thus often used in home theater systems to reproduce the loud, low frequency sound effects. But if you are concerned about the best bass accuracy and transient response for music then a sealed (acoustic suspension type) subwoofer is generally better.
I bought a cheap Sony bass-reflex self-powered subwoofer (exposed woofer with a tube port) to supplement my small speakers on my computer. It had a rather muddy sound so I plugged up the tube port with a heavy sock, which made it into a (mostly) sealed design. That greatly improved the transient response, and sharp bass drum thumps and other transient type bass sounds now sound significantly cleaner and more realistic.
The distortion is either due to the speaker reaching the cone limits or the amplifier clipping. It has nothing to do with the air since, under the conditions in the speaker box, it acts as a linear spring as the air is only slightly compressed even at maximum speaker excursion.Yeah, I've seen that some fully sealed car woofer enclosures makes very tighter bass response, but the problem was that at higher volumes it tends to distort because theres no way for the air inside to get compressed more.
Almost.But I think that middle drivers are just pictures of tweeters glued right on there to foolish the customers, right AG?
The cheap ones intentionally put a peak (resonance) down there because it "extends" bass response to a slightly lower frequency and also makes the speaker sound like it has "more bass". As noted, it also makes it a "boom boom" box that simply outputs the same generic bass note for any frequency in the lower range.With careful design you can get a bass-reflex subwoofer design to have good transient response with a smooth frequency response but many are poorly designed and have a very peaky and undamped response.