Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Is it possible to buy a laptop that has built-in speakers which aren't a 
> joke?

  I know next to nothing about audio and loudspeaker technology, but as
far as I understand the capability of a loudspeaker to play bass
frequencies is more or less directly proportional to the physical size
of the loudspeaker (you need a larger box to get lower frequencies).
Thus it's very difficult if not impossible to play low frequencies with
very small speakers which do not have any volume to them to speak of.
Thus you will never get high-quality sound from very small speakers.

  (One could ask what about headphones. Those are pretty small speakers
and they can play pretty low frequencies. I assume it has something to
do with their physical location with respect to the ear canal.)

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