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  2. 25 best pop songs to test your speakers - AOL

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    Pop music: a problematic genre to pin down. The iconic ABBA 1976 song was inspired by the musical Cabaret and is all juicy, darker bass-registers, an unrelenting disco beat and ...

  3. Subwoofer - Wikipedia

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    From about 1900 to the 1950s, the "lowest frequency in practical use" in recordings, broadcasting and music playback was 100 Hz. [9] When sound was developed for motion pictures, the basic RCA sound system was a single 8-inch (20 cm) speaker mounted in straight horn, an approach which was deemed unsatisfactory by Hollywood decisionmakers, who hired Western Electric engineers to develop a ...

  4. Audio system measurements - Wikipedia

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    "Wow" is slow speed (a few Hz) variation, caused by longer-term drift of the drive motor speed, whereas "flutter" is faster speed (a few tens of Hz) variations, usually caused by mechanical defects such as out-of-roundness of the capstan of a tape transport mechanism. The measurement is given in % and a lower number is better.

  5. Low-frequency effects - Wikipedia

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    LFEs include both low-pitched musical notes and low-pitched sound effects. The musical soundtrack for many films includes bass instruments that produce very low notes. . Until the 1970s, most of the low-pitched instruments were natural, acoustic instruments, such as the double bass or the pipe organ's pedal key

  6. Loudspeaker measurement - Wikipedia

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    Positioning is best done by moving the mic from side to side for maximum response on a 1 kHz tone, then a 3 kHz tone, then a 10 kHz tone. While the very best modern speakers can produce a frequency response flat to ±1 dB from 40 Hz to 20 kHz in anechoic conditions, measurements at 2 m in a real listening room are generally considered good if ...

  7. Get Your Steps in With These 10 Under-Desk Treadmills - AOL

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    Shop the 10 absolute best under-desk walking treadmills on the market. Superfit Fordable Under-Desk Electric Treadmill This electric treadmill is compact, quiet, and ideal for work-from-home ...

  8. Rotary woofer - Wikipedia

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    A rotary woofer is a subwoofer-style loudspeaker which reproduces very-low-frequency content by using a conventional speaker voice coil's motion to change the pitch (angle) of the blades of an impeller rotating at a constant speed. The pitch of the fan blades is controlled by the audio signal presented to the voice coil, and is able to swing ...

  9. Bass Mekanik - Wikipedia

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    It was here that Billy met Neil Case. Neil had an idea for a new style of car audio bass CD that would include test tones to set up audio systems properly. This was the birth of the Bass Mekanik Series of releases. Neil and Billy continue to release albums under the Bass Mekanik name and have sold about a million copies [citation needed] of ...