Bowers & Wilkins CT 700 Series Loudspeakers Reviewed

It didn't take me long to realize that this wasn't going to be your normal product review. Not because the product, Bowers & Wilkins' new CT 700 series loudspeaker, is either bad or wholly unique, but because, unlike other traditional......Read More

Definitive Technology Super Cube Reference Subwoofer Reviewed

Definitive Technology is well know in the audio business as a giant killer. They make full-range speakers that sound phenomenal for less than many snotty audiophile company's smallest monitors - you know the ones without any meaningful bass performance. Anyone......Read More

Definitive Technology SuperCube I Subwoofer Reviewed

Definitive Technology has been a groundbreaking company, offering speakers at budget prices that are giant killers, and that carries over to their line of subwoofers as well.  The SuperCube I is designed to be of reasonable size, yet it puts......Read More

Definitive Technology SuperCube Reference Subwoofer Reviewed

If you want great sound in a home theater, you need solid bass. Definitive Technology has made a reputation for providing speakers of all kinds with great bass response at a reasonable price. The Definitive Technology SuperCube Reference is currently......Read More

Definitive Technology Trinity Subwoofer Reviewed

I like the idea of a total sea change. Everything in the world of subwoofers today is about manipulating stats to make a small subwoofer look on paper like it performs like a big subwoofer. The fact is: physics are......Read More

Energy ESW-V10 Subwoofer Reviewed

Energy is an audio manufacturer that is fairly well known for developing quality speakers at a mid-range price and now they are slowly getting into producing a more high-end subwoofer product line starting with the ESW-V10. The list price for......Read More

Home Theater Review 2009 Best of Awards

For the first time, Home Theater Review com's editors have picked a select list of the best gear from many of our AV equipment categories. The winners are picked subjectively by our staff. In today's economy, value matters - this......Read More

Infinity Cascade Model Fifteen Powered Subwoofer

Infinity Cascade Series loudspeakers have a distinctively appealing design--sleek and thin with curved and tapered baffles. They're so pretty that it would be a shame to mate them with a boxy, clunky subwoofer. This fact is not lost on Infinity,......Read More

Infinity PSW310W Wireless Subwoofer Review

The Infinity PSW310W wireless subwoofer incorporates a simple idea - make a subwoofer wireless - that has a wealth of practical implications. With a conventional wired subwoofer, a line-level cable has to be connected to it from the A/V receiver,......Read More

JBL WEM-1 Wireless Expansion Module

Many people would love to install a home theater (yes, there are still legions of people out there who don't have one), but face a very real obstacle: how do they get the wires from the A/V receiver to the......Read More

JL Audio Fathom f112 Subwoofer Reviewed

JL Audio, a leader in car audio products, has made a bold, high-end statement in the audiophile and home theater market with a number of very high-performance and high-dollar subwoofers that are designed to quite simply rock your world.  The......Read More

JL Audio Gotham Subwoofer Reviewed

The JL Audio Gotham has come a long way from the early offerings that characterized JL's roots as an automotive loudspeaker manufacturer. If you're thinking the Gotham is a couple of low-quality car audio sub drivers in a new, high-gloss......Read More

MartinLogan Depth i Subwoofer Reviewed

The subwoofer is the unsung hero of any home theater or multi-channel music system.  Sure, we are aware of the subwoofer and often feel its presence, but all too often, once purchased, it sits there in the corner, never to......Read More

MartinLogan Descent i Subwoofer Reviewed

MartinLogan's current, top of the line subwoofer is the Descent i, which replaces the Descent. The new model retails at $2,995, $200 more than its predecessor. The Descent i, is similar to its predecessor in overall design but features significant......Read More

MartinLogan Descent i Subwoofer Reviewed

MartinLogan's current top of the line subwoofer is the Descent i, which replaces the Descent. The new model retails at $2,995, $200 more than its predecessor. The Descent i is similar to its predecessor in overall design, but features significant......Read More

Outlaw Audio ECS-10 Subwoofer Reviewed

A major problem in the past with small and compact subwoofers was their inability to deliver strong and deep low-end to the average soundstage. Outlaw Audio's design team was well aware of this challenge when they started developing the ECS-10......Read More

Outlaw Audio LFM-1 EX Subwoofer Reviewed

The LFM-1 EX is the largest and most powerful subwoofer in the Outlaw Audio product lineup.  While amazingly low-priced and sold Internet-direct, this $599 subwoofer comes packed with a 12-inch-long throw driver housed in a 21.75-inch-tall, 15-inch-wide and 22-inch-deep black......Read More

Paradigm Servo 15v2 Subwoofer Reviewed

Paradigm is considered by critics, home theater enthusiasts and audiophiles to be one of the top speaker makers in the world, for very good reason.  Their excellent performance and reasonable pricing make their speakers products almost anyone can afford, while......Read More

Paradigm Signature SUB 25 Reviewed

The Paradigm Signature SUB 25 is the biggest, baddest subwoofer in Paradigm's extensive product line-up. I recently reviewed Paradigm's Studio speakers with their Studio SUB 15 subwoofer. The Signature SUB 25 is outwardly similar to the Studio SUB 15, but......Read More

Paradigm Studio 100 5.1 Speaker System Reviewed

The Paradigm Studio v.5 series was introduced at CES 2009 as the fifth iteration of the Studio series. The Studio series was first introduced about a decade ago and, as the version number implies, it has been updated as new......Read More

REL Acoustics Britannia B2 Subwoofer Reviewed

To shun subwoofers because of some imagined association with the Dark Side is to ignore a noble history, and with British and Continental rather than just American precedents. Indeed, while M&K and other pioneers in the States were developing......Read More

REL Acoustics T1 Subwoofer Reviewed

The REL Acoustics T1 ($998), imported to the Untied Stated from England by Sumiko, is a strong performer in the small subwoofer category. Comparable in size to the Sunfire True Subwoofer EQ Signature, which is 13 inches square, the REL......Read More

Revel Performa B15a Subwoofer Reviewed

Many subwoofers set out to create total and complete bass destruction, mainly for home theater applications. The lower and louder, the better, most engineers think. Revel's engineers respectfully disagree. While low and loud are clearly a goal, control and room......Read More

Revel Ultima SUB 30 Subwoofer Reviewed

Revel is the flagship speaker brand for Harman International (JBL, Infinity, Mark Levinson, Lexicon) and their Ultima line is their very highest-end offering to the consumer marketplace. For low-end bass reinforcement for their speakers at the Ultima level, there is......Read More

Subwoofer Reviews & Information

Subwoofers are speakers designed specifically and exclusively to reproduce the lowest register of audio in home theater and audiophile systems. Often using large drivers sealed in a square-shaped box, subwoofers originally were designed to augment the lackluster bass performance of floor-standing speakers....Read More

Sunfire True Subwoofer EQ Reviewed

Ahhhhh ... the subwoofer that started it all.  Before Bob Carver cooked up the idea of putting a crazy-powerful digital amp into a small box with an ultra-long excursion driver, the concept of truly loud and deep bass from a......Read More

Sunfire True Subwoofer EQ Signature Reviewed

Sunfire's Bob Carver is the one person most credited for creating the small subwoofer market in the 1990s and, while the patent didn't hold up, the brand and category sure did. Sunfire's True Subwoofer EQ Signature at $2,195 might be......Read More

Sunfire True Subwoofer Super Junior Reviewed

Have you ever seen Paris Hilton carrying around one of those little miniature-breed dogs that fit disgustingly in a $6,000 Prada purse and actually likes to go shopping on Rodeo and thought, "Who the hell would want a measly dog......Read More

Totem Acoustic Tribe 12-Inch In-Wall Subwoofer

If you asked me to think of a thin and flat audio/video product, the first thing that would come to mind would be a flat-panel TV. The last thing that would come to mind would be a subwoofer. That's why......Read More

Velodyne SMS-1 Subwoofer Processor Reviewed

When thinking of high-performance subwoofers, the name Velodyne is probably the first that comes to mind, and for good reason. Velodyne has been on the cutting edge of subwoofer technology from their beginning in 1983. Since then, Velodyne has employed......Read More

Wilson Audio Thor's Hammer Subwoofer Reviewed

I recently saw a late-night show on the Discovery Channel about Type-T personalities. You know who I am talking about: the ones who are always seeking a thrill like going on roller coasters or skydiving. They seem crazy to the......Read More