woofer
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But there is also a vivid Afro-punk spirit to match the movie’s Black protagonist, who carries a boombox with an eyeball woofer.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The nights me and D. Reid rode in the back seat of Third’s or Toine’s Ford Escort, a woofer boom-blapping through the seat, as we bent corners downtown.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
The tweeter is aimed forward and the woofer fires down into a cavity to amplify the bass.
From The Verge ● Sep. 25, 2019
With two tweeters, two midrange drivers and a 6.5-inch wireless woofer included, “it’s quite loud,” playing up to 100 decibels, said Marty Wachter, director of UX and technology for Command Bar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2018
Here, the lower-frequency sounds are emitted by the large speaker, called a woofer, while the higher-frequency sounds are emitted by the small speaker, called a tweeter.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
And as you might expect from being surrounded by three 8-inch woofers, the effect was impressive, with music tracks in particular offering a real gut punch of sound with each bass note.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2022
In our industrial empires, we are constantly assaulted by whirring tires, booming woofers, pounding engines and “a smeared canopy of airline noise.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
Apple has also equipped the Studio Display with a powerful six-speaker system consisting of four woofers and two tweeters.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022
They are clear and crisp, with some actual low-end from four woofers, and they get super loud.
From The Verge ● Oct. 29, 2021
Google also claims the Home Max will offer deeper bass due to its excursion woofers and is 20 times more powerful than the original Google Home.
From Time ● Oct. 4, 2017
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