When recording a video of someone downstairs playing loud bass, why can’t you hear it on your speakers, but only using headphones?

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When recording a video of someone downstairs playing loud bass, why can’t you hear it on your speakers, but only using headphones?

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Some speakers just aren’t tuned to be able to play low frequencies. You’ll typically need large drivers, which just don’t fit in a phone body.

Headphones (and more expensive standalone music gear in general) will have the proper drivers to play whatever frequency you need.