The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Q: What is a subwoofer and why do I want one?

The short answer is that a subwoofer generates low-frequency sound in music or movies. But what does that mean? All sounds can be measured by their frequency. The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch. Sounds like high hats, cymbals, and the spoken letters T or S are high frequency. Because the sound waves happen so fast they are close together. This means that the speaker that makes those sounds is usually small. These small speakers are called Tweeters, not to be confused with Twitter. But you can see how the small format social media pl...