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From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK)
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Subject: Re: DAK-- everything from equalizers to ham
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:49:12 EDT
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>>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
 
Okay, I'll admit it, I got one for my wife.   In general I have been pretty
unimpressed with Cerwin-Vega speakers because of their amazing ability to
put large woofers on speakers and still have boomy midbass and NO low
bass (<45 Hz or so).  However, I built some speakers that measure about
12"x8"x6" for Christmas a couple years ago and they have bass to about 40 Hz,
but are down 3dB about 75Hz.  Solution: get a cheap sufwoofer from DAK.
My impression of this subwoofer are: it really only goes to (as far as I can
tell) maybe 35Hz.  It is good looking, sounds ok, definitely improved the
sound of those little boxes, and is probably worth the money.  One thing to
note, though- the crossovers included to roll the bass off your satellites
is terrible- it seems to be an inexpensive 6dB, probably just a couple of
caps. ( I haven't opened it up to find out.) I remedied this by hooking 
the speakers up as Speaker A on my wife's receiver and the woofie as 
speaker B, and playing both.  So - you get what you pay for, and it
seems to be sufficient to increase the low end of a non-tweak system
pretty well.
    '`'`
    Ken
    `'`'