Incredibly good for music
Written: Jan 16 '02
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Pros: Deep, clear and profound Bass; ideal for orchestral music.
Cons: None, other than the appearance is different from the picture shown here.
The Bottom Line: This is an outstanding buy. It seems especially musical for a powered subwoofer.
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| cptnalaska's Full Review: Acoustic Research S112PS Subwoofer Speaker |
This AR/Infinity model S112PS is an outstanding powered subwoofer for any price. It's better than the Sony WM40 and comparable to the Paradigm PDR12 which costs a lot more. My primary interest is music rather than movies. I own/rent a lot of CD/DVD classical, opera, jazz, rock, etc...
I have a circle of friends who love (and listen to) music regularly. We like to think we keep each other honest. We also like to drink while we do this, so beware. Eight out of nine people in our group heard this SW for the first time at my house "blind" and rated this as one of the best powered subwoofers they had ever heard. As a sub-topic be advised that we "did" speaker cables a year ago and could discern no difference between $200 "quality" cables and zip cord. You may want to move to other opinions on based on this fact.
As always, when you read any review in a forum such as this, consider the source. A reviewer who is primarily interested in DVD movie sound effects has different expectations than a music listener.
One reads all kind of nonsense on how far down the "hearable" frequency spectrum extends. It's really quite simple. If you have a piano or a keyboard , find middle C (256Hz)...Go down one octave and that's 128Hz....3 octaves down from middle middle C is 32 Hz. Can you hear that? Of course you can...so much for "feeling music below 100 Hz". One can hear this SW down to 28 HZ or so.
We did a lot of placement, adjusting and hearing before we found a fairly good set of control settings and placement for this amazing unit. We found that it performed gloriously once the settings were right and the SW was placed with the open reflex duct facing out (toward the room) rather than in...which means the Plain-Jane speaker cloth faces the wall and what you see is a rather ugly set of terminals and a heat sink. Details, details.
I tested this SW at close to full volume with a rather good system...(Magnepans, Onkyo amp and such)with the MET DVD production of "Tosca", Tschaikovsy's 5th and 6th Symphonies, Mahler's 3rd., vintage Coltrane, U.S.Marine band Sousa Marches, Bach organ pieces...u.s.w.
You might want to check the reviews in other forums such as audiosource.com...DVD's are great and I know I sound a bit like an elitist but if you are an orchestral music listener, DON'T HESITATE...buy one of these puppies...
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Amount Paid (US$): 230
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