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Summary: T-Rex A'Comin!!
Review: Our main interest in buying this subwoofer was to give our home theatre system some of the low-end impact you feel at the movies and for that use it's a success. I spent the first evening running through bits and pieces of Jurassic Park, Top Gun and Independence Day, messing with the crossover point and level control and eliciting some interesting harmonics from our china cabinet. Yeah, it's that powerful. I'm going to replace the cheap speaker-wire clips with binding posts: hence the 4 stars. At this price I'm not worried about whether or not doing so voids the warranty! Other than the terminals, I'd give it a five. Oh: be prepared to let your subwoofer replace an end table or something: the guy is big. BUY this sub if you want the true theatre low end but don't expect to hide it under the couch.
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Summary: Trouble
Review: Sounded great for a short while. Fuses keep blowing so something is very wrong. Hoping Amazon takes care of this one ... we'll see. Depressing to have something that should work yet won't ... I never cranked it up or drove it hard.Stay away from Audiosource.
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Summary: A Subwoofer Anyone Can Easily Add to Their Music System
Review: The AudioSource SW Fifteen Powered Subwoofer is an excellent subwoofer for the price (thanks Amazon!) and easily integrates into most music systems. Its set up is a snap, anyone can do it. I have it matched with three different pairs of bookshelf speakers that I can switch between, and all are in a surround sound set up. It compliments the system with all three pairs of bookshelf speakers by adding the needed lower bass without being too "booming" and pronounced. It can play loud when it is made to do so, but the speaker's strong point is the overall bass blends quite well with most speakers. An added plus is I did not have to do a lot of adjustments to the subwoofer to get good sound (needed bass) from it.
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Summary: what a piece of garbage
Review: They have really outdone themselves this time. One would think that a company like audiosource could build a decent product. Well guess what they can't. Today I received my replacement for the first broken SW fifteen that amazon sent me. I hooked it up using the best cables (monster) to one of the best amps (Pioneer Elite) and guess what. The piece of junk doesn't work. I have had it with Amazon and Audiosource the item is already in the mail going back. I am done with cheap $199 subwoofers. Seriously if you have a half decent sound system don't buy this sub, don't even waste your time. Go high end and get amazing sound and a product that at least works. On a further note if are serious about sound go to a retailer so that you can touch, see and hear the item before you buy it.
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Summary: Good for the price
Review: This is a fair quality subwoofer. It is a very good price and has a lot of power. On my system the SW15 plays frequencies as low as 22hz, which is impressive. The bass is not as punchy or resonating as higher-priced models (Cerwin Vega, Velodyne) and sound reproduction is not as clean. But this sub is good for the price, especially if you don't want to spend much more than $1000 on your stereo system.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This is a great Sub-Woofer. It adds everything I had hoped it would to my home entertainment system that I had hoped it would and much more. Tremendous power in this product. Larger than I though it would be however, but it's sound is the size of it. Highly reccomended!
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Summary: Home theatre only
Review: This sub is a great bargain---for home theatre. I run a few DTS cd's, but through a different sub. However, for special effects, this thing is amazing, and I haven't even used 1/2 the power. The lows are truely in the SUB-woofer range, as opposed to most "subs" which are actually in the woofer range, and distort badly when pushed.
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Summary: Great addition for home theater and music
Review: This subwoofer has been a much needed addition to my RCA RT2500 home theater system. After reading reviews on the item here and on a few other websites, I decided to look for the cheapest price I could find it for. I lucked out and caught it at the most popular online auction site for under a benjamin. When I first hooked the subwoofer up it did sound too boomy, tubby, and muddy especially when playing music, so I followed advice from others by using spray adhesive, staples, and twenty ounzes of polyfil to line the vast majority of the inside of the sub's cabinet. I did not block the ports and stayed three inches away from both the driver (to not limit excursion) and the amplifier (to avoid overheating.) The unit does have a little port noise so partially covering each port can be done to minimize this if desired. Once I hooked the speaker up the bass transformation was incredible. The bass became more punchy and responsive. I could not believe this was the same speaker. For less than ten bucks, I made this thing sound like a sub costing at least five hundred bucks. I must admit that there was still a little trace of boominess left, but this is OK since I am primarily using it for home theater and got it for so cheap. You could always add more or less polyfil to get it just right for yourself. The sub is not slack on features either because it has plenty of hook ups (RCA and speaker wire), variable crossover, variable level, and an auto-on feature. Other suggestions I would have to give is to consider the power and size of this sub before buying. It is huge (a few inches shorter than a two drawer file cabinet) and powerful (when added to the 200 watt sub on the RCA RT2500 shakes entire house at half power) so discuss this purchase with other family members and consider your neighbors before turning it up high. Other modifications can include adding spiked feet if on carpet or placing a heavy object on top of the sub to keep it from sliding when it is really pumping some serious bass. I went to a local garden shop and bought a 16" x 16" x 2" cement block, placed it neatly completely inside of a black T-shirt, trimmed the excess off, placed a 15" x 15" piece of cardboard on top of the sub to protect the finish, and finally anchored the sub down securely under the heavy load. Other suggestions would be to use heavy gauge speaker wire or preferrably a shielded subwoofer cable with a Y adapter to hook this thing up and maybe even use heavier wires to connect the speaker to the amplifier on the inside (they looked smaller than they should have to me.) If you are super dedicated you could even line the inside with acoustic tiles first before adding polyfil. BUY THIS SUB NOW!!! Then easily modify it to suit your tastes, and use the money you saved to buy DVD's, CD's, VHS tapes, upgrade other components, or whatever and enjoy.
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Summary: Warning! Not for the weak!
Review: Wow, money sure goes a long way with this sub. You might aswell buy 2. It is loud. It really adds a lot of depth to music andmovies. This sub has all the connections you need to hook it up to any system. You could connect just about anything to this sub. And with a 5 year warranty I don't have to worry about it breaking down! I'd be careful turning it all the way up, it could shake your walls down! END
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