Ha ha ha ha ha, You have a way with words Walter. At my Granddaughter?s wedding the DJ played the kind of music you are describing, very little melody, heavy bass and a lot of drums--NOISE to me. In my younger days when a new song came out we had a saying, if you can whistle the song and easily memorize it, it would become a Hit. What I heard at the wedding had no describable melody, mostly bass and drums.

On the positive side they needed to make changes in music as they have always done, my group did not sound like Guy lombardo (spelling??)
And today?s musicians do not sound like my group. But---- some of the music of today is good and I enjoy playing them.

So back to subwoofers ---- with a crossover unit you can control what goes into your speaker. In the case of wanting more of the low end, bass and drums, you can send just the lower range of sounds to your speaker. Subwoofers have built in crossovers, Bass speakers normally do not. The sound of a bass speaker with a crossover is different than a subwoofer. Why? What is it doing to the sound? Which is preferible? Any Opinions.

Music does satisfy, John C.