A subwoofer stand—do you really need one? Some say that, with a stand, the sound won’t get a dramatic boost in quality; others state that stands are completely unnecessary altogether. However, these are all subjective opinions – the fact is that subwoofer stands aren’t (usually) too expensive, they look quite neat most of the time, […]

There’s a lot of debate in the home audio community about how important it is to buy efficient speakers. A speaker’s efficiency doesn’t necessarily have a direct influence on the quality of the sound, but is instead more of a measure of how much power it needs to give you its best. Where the efficiency […]

Finding the right speakers for rock music is sort of tricky. As a genre, rock music places more complex demands on a speaker than any genre except classical in terms of the wide dynamic and frequency ranges the speakers will be required to reproduce. The ideal speakers should be able to give the same clarity […]

A traditional 2-way speaker features two sound drivers: a tweeter to play the treble frequencies and a woofer for the bass. A 3-way speaker, on the other hand, also has a designated driver for the mid-range, giving you more detail and better sound quality throughout the range. Because three drivers require more space than two, […]

Most speakers use a separate driver to handle high and low frequencies—a woofer for lows and a tweeter for highs, with a crossover circuit to tell the signals where to go. Full-range speakers, on the other hand, have a single driver, eliminating the need for a crossover and allowing for more articulation and detail in […]