Subwooferation deliberation.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)

It's no wonder that DAR finds subwoofers to be as much a problem as an aid in a music system. Crossovers are never textbook in the better speakers and that is the best they can be in a subwoofer and main speaker that were not designed to work together. And if they are designed that way, how can the subwoofer work well with a different main speaker? And that will surely reduce the marketability of the subwoofer. Would you buy a separate tweeter and woofer/ mid and use a generic crossover and expect to get good sound?

I use a custom speaker system consisting of a D'Appolito 2-way ported speaker crossed over passively to a separate 18-inch ported subwoofer designed by my friend, Murray Zeligman. The subwoofer crossover (and indeed the whole system) was designed as a unique design, not as a generic add-on. Since the mid/woofer design was good to ...