The SMAXBASS lets you hear deep, natural and undistorted bass response up to 1.5 octaves below the physical low frequency roll-off of a loudspeaker system without adding additional stress to amplifiers or speakers. This is accomplished with patented processing that creates an acoustic illusion based on the psychoacoustic Phenomenon of the Missing Fundamental. This is conceptually similar to perceiving a full color spectrum from only red, green and blue pixels on your television display, Waves, the world leader is signal processing tools to audio professionals has extensively researched how to optimize this process and patented its SMAXBASS psycho acoustic bass extension. This technology has been used in top music recordings for many years and now it available in consumer electronics.