Very good little subwoofer. Good crossover. Makes great movie sound. Good connections and controls. Best price / performance I have ever heard. Maybe not best HiFi but makes lot of good (and even low frequences) BASS!

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Paradigm PDR-8

powerfull punch for 60 watts

muddy at high levels

i bought this sub for my home theater and i did not like
but then i bought some verry verry verry verry good subwoofer cable for $75 and then i was verry verry verry happy i have this sub wright beside my Sony wega tv and this sub goes clean down to 30 hz it adds solid punch
bass and i like that i think this sub is well worth it's money great job sony

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Polk 8" 50 watt sub

Price, small size

Falls off below 45Hz after peaking at 55Hz, not suited to loud playing

Obviously this is not audiophile gear here. I use this with an old Denon 1700 I have hooked up to my pc (equipped w/SB 5.1 mp3+ soundcard) with some KLH Platinum bookshelf/satellites. To that end - game playing, casual listening to cds and mp3s, it is adequate. It definitely makes its presence heard.

There's no way your gonna get house party or theatre sound levels out of this unit and you shouldn't expect it. That's what the Paradigm SW and Klipschs in the living room are for.

FYI, as stated in weaknesses, it peaks at about 55Hz-I suspect its port is tuned for a peak somewhere in there, then falls off very rapidly below 45-50Hz. Sony states it will go down to 28Hz but if you can hear it there, it's sure to be too loud at higher frequencies.

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Paradigm PSW 2200, KLH ASW110

Great value, good bass for small living (HT) area....Low Cut off frequency levels 50Hz and below

A bit boomy at times, but a little bit of tweaking will solve it

Great Value....Just enough bass to fill your room...

Sometimes boomy, but the phasing and its value can make up for that....

Perfect for desktop/micro systems

if you play for high volume, opt for SA-WM40

I bought this after I got JVC desktop system, it plays well, but I have to set tone to "0" and do not use any bass boost, then you'll get the most for this combination, since it has high cut, level, and phase control, I can tune it carefully to perfectly "connect" the cross-over point, it plays good at normal/relax level, but since the output is just 60 watts, it may be hard to work with loud music, though I have no problem to connect to another home theater system and turn the volume up even to make you ear pain...

Price! Compact Size.

Small speakers can't deliver the power that is needed at times.

Well, I needed SOMETHING. So I got this thinking it would work well with my Sony Amp and DVD. And I was right about that. However, you can really tell the difference when you have the volume up, and that little box just looses it and gives that real crappy grumble rather than a loud and solid boom.

For the $149 I paid, I could have gotten better performace from other Subs with a bigger speaker. I just found a JBL 12" powered sub in that price range.

I think this unit would be a better additon to a small stereo, rather than a home theatre.

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Verry tight clean bass, goes low around 29Hz.
well worth the money.

none relly well i am getting tired of putting the pictures back on the wall

wow this sub is great i never knew sony could make such a good subwoofer i love this sub it has great values like good looks verry good sound i cant belevie how deep this little sub can go ( 29Hz +/-3dB now thats good ) and you can have this bad boy cranked to the max and you get no distortion BEWARE: if you buy this great sub pick up some good quality subwoofer cable it does the job pick up some MONSTER CABLE THX CERTIFIED it works the best and remember place the sub in the corner.
great buy

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Tested Polk Audio PSW-250, Acoustic Research AR108PS.
the sony went deeper and had cleaner bass

Tight bass extremly powerfull bass for such a small sub.
goes relly low 20Hz

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can you say BASS well this little sony can say BASS even better.
I thought this little sub was going to be a peice of dog fudge intell i hear one at my freinds place. this little beast pounded when we watched blade the lows were awesome .
you may mistake if for a 10". I was so happy when i hooked my verry own up to my Denon A/V receiver the bass hits hard i played a couple of tracks from booty bass cd and wow i could not beleive this was a $110 product things from my shelfs would be falling down from my bedroom i have my sub placed in the left corner top corner in my living room and i sit in the lower right corner thats were all of the bass goes.

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JBL-PB10

the sub out connect makes it easy to hook up two subs, especially if you have a big listening area. despite what people think this little thing does dip below 40 hz. hey it's worth the seventy four bucks i paid for it.

the weakness is determined by the size of the room and your system, this thing is 60 watts, it's perfect for my room.

I have a pioneer 509s dobly/dts receiver, for almost a year now, i'd held off on getting a sub until getting a house. being in an apartment neighbors do not take kindly to subs. when i heard Montgomery Wards was liquidating i thought that i'd check it out. to my suprise everything was 80% off. There were some JBL tower speakers and one little sony sub- For the price i had to buy it even if it sucked. i could give it to my in-laws if it didn't work, they don't know the difference-i don't think MATLOCK has a strong LFE signal. I hooked the sub to my reciever and played around with large and small speaker settings on the pioneer. on big action movies, large on the front channels and setting the cutoff at about 50hz with the volume raised halfway is perfect for normal listening. this sub is perfectly competent for a small living room, if you have to have booming Sir sheck alot rap music go for something else, but if you want low frequency effects the way they are intended to be heard, this model is perfectly fine. for the guy watching the PHANTOM MENACE- dude it's in PROLOGIC ON VHS, there is no separate LFE channel-if you have a decent reciever with an attenuation LFE setting it will sound fine.

p.s. Something i've experimented with is connecting the center channel through the crossover on a separate sub and setting it to large speaking bypassing all of the bass directly to the sub, adding a bit of punch right dead in the center of the listening position-this is a good experiment to try especially if you find a cheap sub at a store that's going out of business, try it out!

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ADCOM crossover 100 watt sub.

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This is a great budget sub it has verry good smooth bass i like it mostly for Home Theater use.
If i were to compare this thing againts the Sony SA-WM40 i would say that the 305 is better it has tighter bass cleaner responce but the M40 will play a bit deeper.
Overall i think this sub is a great value.

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