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woofer
noun
An electronic speaker that produces low-frequency sound.
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Perhaps a bigger obstacle is French composers' reputation for writing music that is too thin, too light and too much in the head: all tweeter, so to speak, and no woofer.
A larger speaker, or woofer, produces the lower frequencies, while a smaller speaker, or tweeter, produces the higher frequencies.
The loudspeaker arrays regularly seen in large auditoriums often make use of a single woofer and a single midrange speaker but two or even three high-frequency tweeters.
A larger or more efficient three-way system may add a midrange speaker, helping to create a more nearly linear response between woofer and tweeter.
This is unnecessary for the woofer because of the large diffraction of long wavelengths.
The standard theatre speaker was a two-way system with a high-frequency horn mounted atop a cabinet containing a wide, shallow paper cone woofer.
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"It feels like a sub-woofer," says Mr Viegas.Feel the forceThe new phone goes much further, using very precise actuations of its built-in motors to produce realistic, button-like clicks whenever an onscreen button is pressed.
Miller produces and writes tracks with lots of sonic heft — he hates playing clubs without the sub-woofer speakers that reproduce low end — but that are as candied and basic as any pop you know.
The domes have been used to stage fantastical free-for-all shows of cinematic effects, including dinosaurs, cartoonish tubes of warped space and sub-woofer grumblings.
His tracks draw from disparate strains of dance music — progressive house, electro, dubstep, glitch — and mash them together in fidgety, stuttering stew, with catchy melodies interrupted with violent bass drops — sub-woofer screams land like bombs and dissolve in distorted low-end howls, reminding listeners of movie monsters.
The Harlem Shake is a dance song by a Brooklyn producer named Baauer that mixes a hip-hop beat, Dutch house synth riffs, a rap sample, animal noises and some sub-woofer bass sounds.
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