subwoofers! who likes 'em? who hates 'em?

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everybody by now is familiar with what a subwoofer it- it's a somewhat large bass speaker specializing in reproducing bass tones of the bottom octave of sound, first used in movie theatres [like in the movie "Earthquake!"] but migrating to the home with the advent of home theatre, and to automobiles to override road noise. a lot of aspies can't handle the loud pounding deep bass, it gives them various sensory issues. some get headaches, some lose bowel control, others hate the music often associated with 'em [booming rap]. but IMHO that is cutting them to the quick, as they have legitimate purposes involving music reproduction of contrabass musical instruments such as thunder drums and pipe organ pedal tones. I wanna know who else here besides me likes hearing loud deep bass?

I love them if it’s me operating them. I really crank up the sound when im driving. But I cannot stand to hear or feel “other people’s “ music. I don’t think I could stand to live in a place where I share walls with neighbours again. When I got my first apartment I went shopping for a good system that gave clear rich sound at low volume.

Ever since I was really little, seeing my uncle play in his school band, feeling that deep bass vibrating through my body was always a huge sensory issue for me.

Loud music is one thing, but feeling it shake the whole building just sets off my "fight or flight".



...so of course, I would grow up to become a bass player with a huge amp that shakes the whole house...

If you're deejaying for a big crowd, and its at a venue with a hard tile dance floor, and medicore acoustics, and you're playing a lot of pre 1980 oldies that don't already have artificially enhanced bass, all of which means that you need to pump up the bass, then I love them.

But if Im at home listening to my own stereo, or to my own computer, I hate em, and would bet that my apartment neighbors would also hate them.

For your own car I don't see the need.

Hate them. They make me feel like I want to kill the person using them. Since that isn't an option I usually try very hard to go somewhere else otherwise a meltdown is likely to be the result. Fortunately I live somewhere quiet where I only usually have to put up with them from passing cars driven by little boys.

I'd like some Cherry Garcia, please.

Otherwise, I know nothing about "subwoofers," except that it's the name of some amplifier type thing.

Depends.
I do love the way they make you feel the music, but like others have said, it would have to be my music.
The subwoofers they have in cars that take up the whole boot, and cranked up and driven around so you hear doosh doosh doosh coming miles away just make me want to spew.

My 1967 RCA combo stereo/television produces every sound I want to listen to, no need for sub-30hz racket. Frankly I'm surprised that so many cars that people install those things in don't rattle to pieces.

Woofers are better than tweeters.

Don't mind 'Em.


There are times that do want to feel the vibrations throughout my body for hours. Little to do with hearing the music being played, though it'll be a bonus if I happened to like it.
It's like sensing every step I make whenever I walk for miles -- except I don't have to walk, don't have to sense my weight and the moving space every step.
And said vibration flows in certain directions like some sort of wind, strong and constant -- unlike passerby noises on the road.


Then there are also times that I don't want anything to do with it at all.



Most at the time, I'd prefer it in-between. The noises on the road's somehow just enough.

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Me & my girlfriend HATE them because our neighbors on one side of us listen to very heavy bass sometimes. He know it's extremely loud in our apartment but he's too much of an a$$hole to give a sh!t. We're pretty sure he does it sometimes on purpose. We end up going upstairs when it gets loud. We're trying to move but are on waiting lists.

I love my big subwoofer, especially for movies with special effects, explosions, etc. They freak my cats out though - I suppose cat's hearing may perceive them up differently... Sometimes they activate my "clap on-clap off-the clapper" light controls too... They don't give me a headache or anything - although if the volume is up too loud things can fall off the cabinet with the subwoofer on it.

ironically, the name of my subwoofer is NHT which stands for Now Hear This!. I think it should have been named Now FEEL This!