Speakers require an AC voltage to generate pressure waves but DC coupling is substantially preferred. Most simple amplifiers are decoupled with a capacitor to the speaker to remove the DC bias as speakers don't react well to it (lots of heat and single ended clipping), but this completely eliminates power transfer at very low frequencies (sub audible) and substantially muffles low audio frequencies. The lower the frequency the more it's affected. DC coupling eliminates that problem.
Understanding the exact relationship between the driven voltage at various frequencies and the perceived audio level is pretty complex as it's not linear and there are several points of non-linearity, including the amp itself, the speaker cones mass. Air's mass, the enclosure the speaker is in, the objects near the speaker, the position of the listener in relation to those objects not to mention the listener them self! =) It's a real bear to make any sense out of it.
People will spend many multiple hundreds of percent over the actual cost of a device in the audiophile market simply because they don't understand how a speaker actually works or how they're affected and affect their environment.