Don't know where you got that. Most PC players or even consoles have cheap but functional enough sub-woofers and speakers. Even my small speakers handle down to 50 Hz on my computer but compared to 8" monitors they are more mid-range in the end and roll off on the top end. Not that you can not hear it though because you can, and my speakers are poor ones to begin with. With consoles going to TV's and HDMI whatever it is connections, computer games put out the music and sound just about the same as a DVD movie anymore. Sure to cut down on loading up sounds and such some are *.mp3 files but even with some games another CD comes with it with the music or sounds a lot of them FX sounds are *.wav files also.

I was quite amazed by Maxxbass to be honest, I haven't really gotten into the ins and outs of it but it does have a "laptop speaker" preset which seems to bring out the bass line on small tinny speakers while not interfering with the sound on regular speakers too much.