well, why is the bass the place manufacturer cuts down?
for real bass, you need woofer, big ones (think minimum dual 10 inch or 12 inch woofer). A big woofer need a big box, which drive the price of the cabinet manufacturer up; shipping price is dramatically increase as the weight and size of the box increase. so really, in order to build a "real" speaker that actually can do bass at loud spl, you need to sell that speaker much more pricey then say a 2-way using a 7 inch woofer in a 20L cab vs a 12 inch woofer in a 100L cab.
and that is without even mentioning the fact that for it to sound integrated, a 12 or 15 inch woofer generally needs to be integrated in a 3 way system or used with a horn to make that system to work in most cases (Ill keep the bbc ls5/8 out of the conversation)
so yeah, real bass drive the price of building a speaker up,up, up.
imo, 2-ways with sub cannot compete with a speaker using 12 inch woofers.
for real bass, you need woofer, big ones (think minimum dual 10 inch or 12 inch woofer). A big woofer need a big box, which drive the price of the cabinet manufacturer up; shipping price is dramatically increase as the weight and size of the box increase. so really, in order to build a "real" speaker that actually can do bass at loud spl, you need to sell that speaker much more pricey then say a 2-way using a 7 inch woofer in a 20L cab vs a 12 inch woofer in a 100L cab.
and that is without even mentioning the fact that for it to sound integrated, a 12 or 15 inch woofer generally needs to be integrated in a 3 way system or used with a horn to make that system to work in most cases (Ill keep the bbc ls5/8 out of the conversation)
so yeah, real bass drive the price of building a speaker up,up, up.
imo, 2-ways with sub cannot compete with a speaker using 12 inch woofers.