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The speaker whose entire job is making your floor an accomplice.
means A loudspeaker built to reproduce low-frequency bass sounds.
from Coined in the mid-20th century as audio engineers split speaker duties by pitch: the 'woofer' for low notes, named for the deep woof of a dog, paired with the 'tweeter' for high notes, named for a bird's tweet. Playful, onomatopoeic jargon that just stuck.
- name origin
- named after a dog's low bark, literally
- counterpart
- tweeter handles highs, named after bird chirps
- size matters
- bigger cone moves more air, lower bass
- subwoofer role
- handles frequencies too low for regular woofers