Should I turn the subwoofer off or up?

Off kills the civilian; up lets an entity occupy the body. Guide tables list the same Untapped Bout Guard reward either way.

CONTROL Resonant Subwoofer Location

Q: Where is the CONTROL Resonant subwoofer?

Ask Langston at the Central Field Office for the SR keycard, then open the SR storage room near Executive Research in the Oldest House. Place it in water at the Auction House for The Complete Set.

Quick answer: The “CONTROL Resonant subwoofer” is the Altered Subwoofer inside side story The Complete Set—not a retail edition. Get Langston’s SR keycard at the Central Field Office after the “I am still looking for the subwoofer” line, open the SR storage room near Executive Research in the Oldest House, contain the subwoofer after the Hiss wave, then place it in water at the Downtown Auction House. Speakers and the subwoofer form one Complete Set checklist across zones.

Is the subwoofer a retail product?

No. Complete Set is an Altered Item side story, not a storefront bundle or special edition. The name invites packaging confusion, so this page repeats the confirmed framing: you are recovering SINKKI D50 speakers plus one subwoofer for containment, not redeeming a hardware SKU. The subwoofer half is the access-gated piece; the four speakers are the zone checklist piece.

How does The Complete Set frame speakers and the subwoofer?

Confirmed Complete Set framing lists four speakers plus a single subwoofer. Speaker locations on the companion Complete Set page are the Museum, the Auction House, a construction site, and the Atlantis cafe—one speaker per stop. The subwoofer is handled differently: it is tied to Langston and an SR keycard rather than sitting in the open like the speakers. This subwoofer page focuses on that Langston-to-SR-storage path and the Auction House water placement step without inventing extra rooms beyond the confirmed route.

Speaker 1 — Museum
Speaker 2 — Auction House
Speaker 3 — Construction site
Speaker 4 — Atlantis cafe
Subwoofer — Oldest House SR storage via Langston / SR keycard

Oldest House route for the Altered Subwoofer

Speak with Langston at the Central Field Office so the “I am still looking for the subwoofer” line surfaces and yields the SR keycard. Fast travel to the Oldest House → Central Executive, take the elevator toward Executive Research, then the second lift down to the storage level. Use the door labelled SR beside the bunker or shelter. Interact, clear the Hiss presence, and contain the roaming subwoofer. Skipping the Langston conversation leaves SR storage locked; the keycard is the access item that matters.

Containment is not a quiet pickup. Expect a Hiss wave attached to recovering the subwoofer before containment finishes. Bring a kit that can handle that fight rather than treating SR storage as a silent loot room.

What about the Auction House water step?

After speakers are placed and shut down, the subwoofer path continues at the Downtown Auction House with placement in water. Companion notes also flag a subwoofer-like object that can appear in a water puddle at the Auction House; that object is not interchangeable with the Oldest House SR storage subwoofer required for Complete Set. The Langston-and-keycard subwoofer is the one that completes the set.

Turn off vs turn up at the Auction House speaker

After speakers are placed and shut down, guide phrasing may say Off or Up. Off is described as a civilian death outcome; Up is described as an entity occupying the body in a non-hostile way with FBC pickup flavor. Guide tables list the same Untapped Bout Guard recipe either way, including Power recovery and damage-taken crafting notes when crafted. There is no separate better Bout Guard path hidden behind one wording over the other on the confirmed tables.

The Auction House speaker can rest on glass, stone, wood, or a blue tarp depending on the run. Surface variation does not change the object or the shut-down task. Treat that stop as the one to double-check so you do not confuse speaker shut-down with the Oldest House subwoofer containment sequence.

How should you sequence Complete Set?

Speakers at the Museum, construction site, and Atlantis cafe are generally straightforward single-object pickups once you are in those zones. Sequence the subwoofer deliberately: Langston → SR keycard → Oldest House SR storage → Hiss fight → contain → Auction House water placement as framed on the thin subwoofer page. The four speakers and the subwoofer both matter if the goal is finishing the full set.

Because speakers are not described as gated behind specific traversal abilities the way some Fault content is, you can usually collect them in whatever order matches your main-case progress through those zones. The subwoofer half is the one that fails if you skip Langston.

Collectibles context

Complete Set sits with other Altered Item and object-based side stories in the wider collectibles picture. Use this page for the subwoofer route, the Complete Set page for the full speaker-plus-subwoofer checklist, and the collectibles hub when you are planning a broader cleanup pass that includes cameras, hideouts, Tasks, and Altered Item threads together.

Full speaker surfaces and set overview: Complete Set. Wider object cleanup: collectibles.