Yes. A Q of 0.5 is said to be 'critically damped'. Some listeners say it sounds 'tight', others say 'fast', some even describe it as 'dry' sounding. As I said earlier, words fail at this. As you get woofer/cabinet combinations with higher and higher Q levels, the sound gets different. It sounds 'loose' (as in the opposite of tight), 'slow' and 'wet' sounding just don't make sense to me. As soon as wet get to 'wet & sloppy', we're not talking about audio anymore.
I think what's going on is best said with graphs – both frequency response graphs (frequency vs. loudness), and step response graphs (loudness vs. time in milliseconds). The first example below shows how the same woofer in different size cabinets can have varying system Q values, from 0.5 to 1.2 in the graph. You can see that higher Q values do produce more bass volume, but don't go as low as lower Q values.
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The next graph shows several step response graphs. The woofer is given a single impulse, and it's response is measured over several milliseconds. They show that woofer/cabinet combinations respond for short time (as with a Q of 0.5) and for increasingly longer times as Q increases.
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I mentioned above that a Q of 0.5 is said to be critically damped. Why use the word damped? Because the woofer/cabinet system controls the response of a woofer at it’s resonance frequency. Q of 0.5 is so well damped, that the woofer stops quickly after the single impulse. As Q increases, the woofer rings on and on. Woofers and subwoofers that play on after the signal has stopped sound slow and muddy. Most inexpensive speakers and subwoofers take advantage of a high Q alignment to produce a louder bass response, but their sound is muddy and rings on and on. That ringing bass covers up much of the upper bass and lower mid-range, resulting speakers that don't sound clear at all.
