Since the pickups of 5-way switch-equipped guitars are wound with alternating polarities ( N-S-N or S-N-S ), some amount of phase cancellation occurs, effectively creating a spaced humbucking pair, resulting in a characteristic sound.
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This is still subject to phase cancellation, but cone woofers can be driven to far higher levels due to their longer excursion, thus making equalization to a flat response easier, and they add distortion thereby increasing the area ( and therefore the power ) under the frequency response graph, making the total low frequency energy higher but the fidelity to the signal lower.