Bass management lets small loudspeakers deliver full-range sound

Evidence

All multichannel receivers and processors incorporate bass management, so enormous full-range loudspeakers are not required. One can still have floor-standing loudspeakers, but they need not be the top-of-the-line behemoths that are capable of subwoofer frequencies. Let the subwoofers do what they do best. The reality is that, because of small-room acoustics, the necessary locations for L, C, R loudspeakers are not where we want to position one or more subwoofers to entertain multiple listeners with non-resonant, clean, tight bass. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 811

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the bass-in-small-rooms theme that Chapter 14 (Welti) develops; also resonates with the reader’s interest in psychoacoustic models of bass perception and subwoofer placement.