It's amazing really. Any decent speaker manufacturer will take excruciating pains in designing and executing the crossover between tweeter and woofer. Most go on to devote pages in their literature to tell you about it, offering up trademarked ways to all say the same thing.
THX is almost a quarter century old, and its Consumer Branch has been around since 1990, yet people still do not have a proper understanding of THX. Maybe that's THX's fault, maybe it's ours (the press) . . .
In 5.1 digital surround sound, the 0.1 channel is called the LFE or Low Frequency Effects channel. While in the commercial system it is referred to as the subwoofer channel, this is not necessarily true for home theater setups.
Many surround sound receivers and processors these days offer an "Auto" set-up routine that attempts to configure the basic set-up for the consumer, including whether a speaker should be high-passed or not, which frequency to high-pass it at if applicable . . .
Brian Florian has been affiliated with Secrets since 1998. Driven by a passion for the accurate and correct reproduction of motion picture and sound, he never tires in expanding his knowledge and expertise in the field. He has authored myriad technical articles and hardware reviews, was party to our seminal DVD Player Benchmark, and has experience in illustration and graphic design. A devoted husband and keeper of cat, he works as a Technology Solutions Architect in Atlantic Canada. When he's not staring at a screen with ears perked, he may be seen fiddling with a camera, picking at a guitar, sampling some wine, or messing with an airbrush.
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