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How It Works: The Littlest Subwoofer

Ultimate Ears UE 11 Pro custom earphones pack in four separate speakers—including a subwoofer—to create sound as realistic as if you were hearing it live

Sacrificing sound quality for size was clearly not on the agenda when Ultimate Ears set out to create these top-of-the-line buds.

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The Woofer That Just Won't Die

Car´s subwoofer hissing? No problem. Replace this boomer´s voice coil, and it´s good as new

Your kid borrows the car, blasts too many techno tracks, and blows out the subwoofer. It used to be that you’d have two choices: Buy a new one (woofer, not kid) or put up with a hoarse bass line. But when a subwoofer pops, it’s usually only the voice coil—the part that drives the cone—that’s burned out; the rest of the assembly is just fine. Boston Acoustics’s SPG555 subwoofer is the first with a replaceable voice coil that you can install yourself.

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