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Originally Posted by bluesky636 /forum/post/18180712
Regarding the question that you asked, the answer is "no".
You're right, but also not completely right. Sometimes with larger speaker systems the woofers are separate, or active crossovers are used etc, and it's difficult not to consider those separate subwoofers, sometimes used per-channel with each channel then run full-range.
For instance, a system with active fronts that have separate subwoofer enclosures for each L, R, and C, not an uncommon occurrence in high-cost theaters. I've done a couple systems like this, sometimes without a dedicated LFE subwoofer at all, and so it can be slightly more complex than just a pure subwoofer output distributed equally to multiple subwoofers. In this example you would actually not have any subwoofer output coming off the processor, everything would be run full-range, LFE distributed to the mains L and R, and the bass would be handled separately by external crossovers. And if you also had a similar situation with surrounds, you could conceivably consider those "rear" subwoofers I suppose.
Still, I do understand what you're saying, and this is probably over the head of the OP! I probably just made everything unnecessarily confusing...
Anyway, just rambling...