With this design it will play low freq well, no need to tune it to 25-30hz. If you tune it to low it will start to sound sluggish and un-natural. The half hertz, will help with coupling the harmonics of different freq. together. You could look at it like this, if you take a piano and take all the black keys off from it. Music has sharps and flats. If you find your peak freq. with a meter and it's 47hz, chances are it's 46.5hz or 47.5hz. Will you be able to hear the difference probably not but the meter will. As far as the spl goes, this box with the tuning I suggested will still do a decent number, and will be a very good musical enclosure. I have no idea of what kind of music you listen to, but this box should cover everything well. Hope this helps