

Vinyl is alive and well in the high-end with sales up for both
software and hardware. If you own a turntable system chances
are that you are not using it with a subwoofer. The one real
benefit of the CD is its immunity to acoustic and mechanical feedback.
In the old vinyl days we had to pay real attention to the room
especially if it had wood floors. The whole room could go
into oscillation if the volume wasn't kept under control.
This problem wasn't being caused by very low bass but audible bass,
efficient woofers and inexpensive turntables with a typically high
arm resonance frequency. No you really can't close the lid
on turntable feedback and it doesn't
matter if your vinyl system is mid-fi or really
good, it would benefit
from extended bass that won't interact with the arm to muddy the
quality or cause the arm to jump on occasion. The driver in
a TBI™ Bass Extension Module is completely shielded from
the effects of low frequency reflections, is loaded to infrasonic
frequencies
and is aperiodic in its operation. These qualities favor turntable
operation because even the finest of vinyl will have an occasional
warp or acoustic feedback energy transmitting subsonic information
to the subs. While subsonic filters may be employed their
effect is to emasculate the foundation that you are trying to achieve.
There has never been a combination of room reflection isolation,
extension, subsonic control, speed, size and flexibility of placement
in a bass extension product. These are all attributes that
are required for vinyl and bass extension to take advantage of each
other.
Now the compromise is over as the TBI™ Bass Extension Module
will track a records warped surface and not stimulate arm resonance
as the typical subwoofer would do, in essence making an already
difficult proposition enjoyably possible. So go ahead give
your vinyl the bass extension that it needs.