Active and Passive Subwoofers – Type A (Active) Personalities
Video Presentation of my Home Theater
All any home theater (HT) owner needs to do is search the online HT discussion forums to quickly reveal two truths regarding three-dimensional home theater design: first, there are countless "oops" threads where people have made mistakes and boo boos and they want to share their experiences with others in the hopes that they don't make the same mistakes. And second, unless any home theater owner has literally hundreds of hours to read and research, sift and sort, and spend every available moment for the next 12 months reading through all the discussion threads and trying to take in all the available information, it is probably better to hire a professional to take care of a 3D home theater design. The most important, and most common, question asked is why it is so much better to have a three-dimensional design of a proposed theater space than sticking with the traditional two-dimensional blue print plans.
An active subwoofer is a subwoofer that has its own amplifier. There is no need to use existing receivers or amplifiers. The subwoofer is able to produce its results with its own power. Many home theater owners prefer active subs for a variety of reasons. One reason for choosing an active subwoofer is that bass needs a lot of power to sound as loud and as clean as higher frequencies. Generally, from 100 hertz on down, there needs to be about 10 times the power to move that air at those low frequencies of big wavelength sounds. More power is required of the subwoofer to reproduce a loud and clean sound.
Subwoofers are used in any number of situations and locations, from home theaters and commercial movie theaters to concert halls and large stadiums. The vast majority of the power being used for those applications is produced by the subwoofers because moving that much air for lower frequencies takes a great deal of power. Implementing active subwoofers into the sound system eliminates the unnecessary taxing of the receiver by putting a large power demand on it. The power built into the receiver can take care of the high frequencies, and the low frequencies have their own amplifier.
The second reason many HT owners prefer an active subwoofer is the design itself. There is a phenomenon between the speaker and the amplifier that dramatically reduces distortion. Because the subwoofer does not need to work with a wide variety of amplifiers, they can tweak the circuit amplifier to work well with any particular speaker. There is a way to feedback part of what the speaker is producing into the amplifier so it can adequately compensate, resulting in a dramatic reduction in distortion. The technique is only possible with active subwoofers because the amplifier circuit and the speaker have to be known quantities and specifically be working together in that way, which is not possible with passive systems. Therefore, for the above-mentioned reasons, most HT owners prefer an active subwoofer over a passive subwoofer.
The decision to implement an active or passive subwoofer rests solely with the home theater owner. There are specific characteristics and benefits for any type of subwoofer chosen, depending upon the needs and limitations of the system itself and the available space. Therefore, only after careful testing and planning should the home theater owner make the decision of which subwoofer would best meet the demands of his or her respective system
Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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