Bring your home theater or hi-fi stereo system to life with Advent's ASW1200 active subwoofer. This affordable, nondescript black box is capable of conveying dramatic realism and exciting effects from both music and movie programs. The 12-inch sub delivers 100 watts of clarity and stability--and you can place it just about anywhere in the room since human ears are so much less sensitive to directionality in low-frequency sounds than high-frequency sounds. The speaker has a frequency response of 33 to 150 Hz with a variable crossover to help you match the upper range of its output with the lower range of your other speakers.
The ASW1200 offers inputs for either line- (RCA) or speaker-level (clip-type) inputs, with speaker-level outputs, too, in case you want to run speaker cables from your amplifier or surround receiver to the subwoofer, and then on to your speakers, putting the sub "inline" with 100 percent of your audio listening. Alternately, you can run a dedicated monaural RCA subwoofer cable from your surround receiver's subwoofer preamp output (for authentic ".1" effects from 5.1- or 6.1-channel programs) or from any level-dependent analog audio output.
When used in conjunction with smaller, bookshelf-type speakers, the subwoofer extends system capability to full-range frequency response. With larger, floorstanding speakers, the sub helps shoulder the burden of reproducing low-frequency information, and its variable crossover lets you scale its output to cover only frequencies deeper than those most efficiently reproduced by your floorstanders in your room (rooms have a huge effect on audible bass response).
Included with this Product Subwoofer, 4 feet, and a user's manual with warranty information.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and CriticismI don't consider myself an audiophile, but I recognize good sound when I hear it. This sub sounds way better than its price would indicate. I have it installed in my vacation home in Florida, with a pair of small JBLs as mains. Let me say that it way exceeded my expections of a $100 (now $80) sub. The room it's in is fairly large, and it has no problem keeping up with the JBLs. No, it doesn't go down to 20hz, but my Velodyne VA1012 doesn't do that either, and it was almost four times the price. It's definitely superior to the cheapie subs you get with an all-in-one system. I would feel confident pairing it with most mass-market speakers.
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