AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - Can a subwoofer get "acclimated" to speaker-level inputs?

On 18 Aug 2003 19:42:19 -0700, (J. Tyler) wrote:

Generally speaking, could a subwoofer that's been played for over a
year using only speaker-level inputs sound temporarily weak and
spotty, especially in the lowest frequencies, when hooked up to a
line-level (RCA) input again?

Could the subwoofer amp somehow "take a set" or get "acclimated" to a
certain type of input through some weird electrical phenomenon? This
apparently happened to my sub after being lent to a friend for over a
year. No abuse I know of, just a high level input for all that time.

It may simply be the difference between running the bass through your
amp/receiver on its way to the sub vs. bypassing them.

It sounds fine now after a few hours playing it with my line-level
input. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it "recovered" its clean
bass but I don't think I imagined the difference.

It's called adaptation. Nothing's changed.

Kal