> The next time you are deciding where to position your bluetooth speaker, if it's lacking in bass, boundary-load it.
There's only so much bass that a silly bluetooth speaker can provide. Even the silly Bose speaker where the sound travels through a maze before exiting the unit just can't make bass. Small speakers just can't move enough air nor have enough surface area to generate the waves for bass. Anything less than 12" is a joke. 15" is ideal for me as 18" tends to not be able to cycle fast enough for the music I listen. They do fine for longer sustained lows like in hiphop/rap. A running 16ths bassline at 135bpm sounds better in a cabinet of 15"s than 18"s. To me. No bluetooth unit has ever impressed me.
Couldn't agree more. But even as a bass head myself (living room flat to about 27 Hz) I find myself occasionally somewhere with a portable speaker, like when traveling... Someone puts it on a table and starts playing it, and is blown away when I move it to be against the wall. The -10dB point moves from, say, 200Hz down to 150Hz.
As for cone size tradeoffs, an interesting peculiarity is in live music: 10" is most common in bass rigs (assuming 4+ of them in a cab) while 12" is most common in guitar rigs. Go figure. Ultimately, the combination of driver specs and cabinet volume can be tuned for any desired response, within reason.
There's only so much bass that a silly bluetooth speaker can provide. Even the silly Bose speaker where the sound travels through a maze before exiting the unit just can't make bass. Small speakers just can't move enough air nor have enough surface area to generate the waves for bass. Anything less than 12" is a joke. 15" is ideal for me as 18" tends to not be able to cycle fast enough for the music I listen. They do fine for longer sustained lows like in hiphop/rap. A running 16ths bassline at 135bpm sounds better in a cabinet of 15"s than 18"s. To me. No bluetooth unit has ever impressed me.