Very accurate, powerful bass, small size

Lots of fine-tuning required

This little guy is amazing. It competes hand in hand with any 15-inch subwoofer available. The only thing the 15-inch Velodyne does better is pure SPL! I did the blind sound test between the Velodyne HGS-15 and the Sunfire. I preferred the Sunfire in just about every application. Both Units will produce accurate frequencies down to 18Hz. The Velo just does it a little louder (not much though). Believe me, this thing will shake the pictures off your wall! The only problem is, it took me about 3 hours of tweaking to get the sound just right.

Now lets talk about size! The Velo is about 40 inches square. This thing is huge! It’s about the size of my coffee table. And you can forget about putting decorations on it unless you glue them down. The Sunfire is only 11 inches square! It weighs about 50 pounds and packs 2700 watts of power. If you want SERIOUS quality bass but refuse to put a giant black crate in your living room, this is the way to go. Nuff said.

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All Velodyne, NHT, Paradigm

Awesome little sub, I have it in a HUGE basement - fills the whole basement with clean, tight, powerful bass.

none yet

Well I went to the dealer, auditioned these three subs again..they were
Paradigm Servo 15 - $1499 + $120 for Xover
Sunfire True Sub MKII - $1249
klipsch L10 - $1399

I brought two of my own DVD's, the Haunting and Saving Private Ryan. During ryan I watched chapter 3&4 with the Klipsch 1st, Sunfire 2nd, and Paradigm 3rd. All in the same room. The Klipsch blew me away, it was so detailed, clean and LOW. Thw hole coucj was shaking and the walls were too. The Sunfire was almost identical but not as clean and the ceiling and rack lights started to vibrate wildly with teh sunfire. It had more output at lower volumes. The paradigm sevo also stood its own BUT I actually preferred these two small cubes vs the Servo. I put in Haunting and OH MY GOD. The Klipsch & Sunfire were neck and neck - I almost picked the Klipsch but noticed a vibrating noise coming from it that I nor the delaer could find. It was annoying and after reading the post about air leaks, I had to pass. For size, performance and quality i went with the Sunfire MKII - The Paradigm was also EXCELLENT but the size was huge and did not seem any better than the sunfire. I traded in my Polk 650 (got $629 for it) and paid another $650 for teh sunfire. I got it home, set it up and after about an hour I have it sounding incredible. There is now bass where there was none before. Compared to the polk, the polk is like the Yugo and the Sunfire like the Rolls Royce. I knwo there are better subs out there but the Paradigm would of cost me an extra $400+ and the klipsch's vibration problem didnt set to well otherwise it would of been the Klipsch. When the 12" klipsch comes out I have a feeling this will be a sub to be reckoned with. In any case I think the sunfire MKII sounds incredible with music as well as movies. I am listening to ZZtop's greatest hits right now and the bass is tight, clean and powerful. WAYYYYYYYYY better than the mushy, boomy polk 650. This sub has to be in a corner at an angle to sound good, just like the manual says. I tried placing it on the floor straight and more out of a corner and the output decreased quite a bit. Once it is set up correctly it is amazing. I have not heard a sub this good in my home ever.


Steve

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polk 150, 650 - Paradigm

Capable of Low and Loud Bass.Space saving

This sub vibrates at high volume level,even with the 4
factory rubber foot fitted.I don't favour on sticking it to
concrete places as I like to shift them during listening.
Improvement needed.

Decided to try one after reading lots of positive review.It really makes a great difference with different
sub position,depending on my taste.
Hard to believe this sub can play at a relatively loud
level.The passive radiator seems to vibrate more than the
driver and it doesn't make any different after I adjusted
the phase.Performance is reaching my expectation though.
The main weakness for this sub is that the sub body vibrates vigorously when playing at exceptionally loud level.It still vibrates when placed on the carpet,and a
speaker will not perform well when it is unstable.Dr Carver
need to do something on this.
Overall conclusion:Really astonishing on the bass it
produces,ideal for Home Theatre.Not so fluent on Classicals.
Reasonable performance at this price.

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Yamaha YST-SW1000

2700 watts, solid construction, bass down to 18Hz, very compact, 225 ounce magnet!!!

hum problem... but was able to eliminate it, by using a 3 to 2 prong plug adapter, only 2 years warranty

I had this sub for 19 months now (hasn't blown yet). This 11" cube box shakes my entire 3300 square feet house, rattle doors and windows, knocked off picture frames, and even set off car alarms!!! This is by far the loudest, cleanest, strongest, tightest sub i ever heard. I only paid $900 for this product. enough said...