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Speakers as Illusionists
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Hiya, Cheapskate!

Good observation.

I've always taken that "illusion" kind of review statement to mean one of two things:

1) The speaker has a bass hump above its low frequency roll-off point that creates the "illusion" of more bass being present.

Or...

2) The speaker is adept in the frequency range of the first harmonic or two of those lower bass fundamentals and reproduces those sounds well, creating the illusion that the fundamental frequency had been reproduced.

Also, I think that when a small speaker performs "better than it ought to" in the bass frequencies, listeners "give it more credit than they ought to" with regard to bass response.

Feel like I haven't seen you for awhile, best wishes.

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I'm with you Buddha. Whenever I see that kind of illusion comment I know it means "this little box needs a good subwoofer".

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