OK.OK...I read the owners manual and can't find the location of the speakers anywhere.....call me stupid... :roll: :oops: ..well my car has the subwoofer in the spare tire as the 7th speaker...so where is the one on the Element??...the salesman didn't know and I just picked up my wife's SOP EX two wheel....sounds are coming from everywhere...but not as good as my BOSE system on my RSX-S.... :wink: :D

Thanks

On the EX, it's just below the centre console.

Iskie

[quote:5fd78a5602="isketerol"]On the EX, it's just below the centre console.

Iskie[/quote:5fd78a5602]

I pouring rain right now...so I will check it out after it slows down a bit...and I thank you ...Merci

Shame on your dealer! That's pretty basic knowledge for someone who is trying to sell a car! In any case, try turning the bass up so it's really thumping and put your hand down there... that little sub moves quite a bit of air!

[quote:a4b51b4c33="Aykew"]Shame on your dealer! That's pretty basic knowledge for someone who is trying to sell a car! In any case, try turning the bass up so it's really thumping and put your hand down there... that little sub moves quite a bit of air![/quote:a4b51b4c33]

He said it was his 1st Element...and funny that it seemed that I knew more about Honda's than he did....besides the Element was a swap from another dealer and it had side steps and I looked over and over on the invoice and final contract and can't find them charging us for them....maybe an oversight....but my wife likes them.... :D :D

OK, I will finally "come out" about my audio ignorance. I want someone to explain to me just what a subwoofer does. Yep, I can hear all that sound coming out of the big speaker beneath the center console. So, is it just another speaker? Or is it supposed to pre-amplify the sound or give it more bass or what?

Thanks in advance for dispelling my ignorance (and this from someone who has owned a couple of fairly nice home stereo systems).

- Steve

In layman's terms, it provides very low frequency bass. A woofer provides bass, so the subwoofer provides the lower frequencies that the woofer does not. A tweeter provides the high end, and a mid-range provides the sounds in between.

A subwoofer will provide a nice low bass sound for drums, bass violins, and the like. It provides the nice rumbly bass.

All too often, subwoofers in cars get misused to create bone-jarring bass that makes the brake pedals of the driver behind them vibrate and their stomach queasy. To my ears, a good bass sounds clean not necessarily loud.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Iskie

In more technical terms:

First, you have to understand that humans can mostly only hear sounds in the 20-20000 hertz range - therefore any decent sound system should be able to reporoduce this range. To do so accurately requires various sizes and types of speakers for different parts of the sound spectrum...

Subwoofers are generally responsible for sounds in the 20-200 hertz range.

Mid-bass (or woofers) are generally responsible for sounds in the 200-4000 hertz range.

Tweeters are generally responsible for sounds in the 4000-20000 hertz range.

In terms of power, subs generally require the most since they are usually the least efficient and largest speakers in the system with the most magnet structure.

Thanks for the good info guys, and for clearing up this mystery for me.\
I pretty much knew what the difference was between woofers and tweeters. It never occurred to me that a subwoofer was something to reproduce sounds at lower frequencies than a woofer -- although by the name, it seems obvious now!

- Steve

weird. don't feel bad. i'm still haven't found my STEERING WHEEL.