Customer Ratings & Reviews

We were due for an upgrade for our sub. This was on sale and after reading other reviews, decided it would be a good replacement for our old sub. Easy set up, run one cable and plug in the power. We followed recommended settings and dialed it in from there. Took about 20 min to blend it in with our system. It’s BIG and makes a LOT of sub base. If you live in an apartment your neighbors will probably hate movie night! You can adjust easily for more or less bass though , so you don’t have to have it pounding, or flip the toggle to turn it off if desired. Good quality, great sound and a good price on sale equals a good deal. It will probably be many years before we need to upgrade again, if ever.

Forget this 12” Speaker if you are after deep Bass! Save your money and purchase their 15” Klipsch!

Absolutely amazing! Clear bass boom! That’s only turned 1/4 of the way. Can adjust if too much. Replaced my Polk that fried out after 6 years. Bought this on a 1/2 off sale. Well worth at full price! Highly recommended. Wish I would’ve bought this first! So clear! So much punch!

Not with the quality I expected. To price for the product.

This sub is a great final component to my new home theater. After watching The Last Jedi, my wife complained that the explosions were too shaky and rattling, so after several adjustments on my receiver and the sub while watching the early bombing sequence over and over, I think I found the perfect point where I can feel the intensity of explosions without having the ceiling shake!

I am incredibly fortunate to have not one, but two pairs of Klipsch 8" floor-standing towers, one pair for the fronts and one pair as my surrounds. I also have a pair of ceiling speakers for Dolby Atmos and it's all powered by a Yamaha RX-A870. All in all, the system sounds pretty darn good. But then, I added two more pieces to complete my Home-Theater puzzle: A Samsung 82" QLED, and this Klipsch 12" powered sub. Oh. My. God!!! This thing is amazing! Effortless bottom end, completely filling out the sound. Full, tight, and so musically accurate. I'm not a huge sports fan... I live in Tampa Bay, so football is a non-starter (sorry football fans!) So my system is all about the movies. When I sit down and dim the lights to watch the latest explosion- and car-chase-filled summer blockbuster, or enjoy a sappy "I-love-you-but-I'm-afraid-to-tell-you" romantic comedy, or, heck, even just the latest binge-watch fare on Netflix or Amazon Prime, the sound is perfect, the surround processing places everything perfectly within my listening space, and this sub makes it all feel as real as life. Helicopters hover overhead... planes routinely zip through my living room, and door-knocks and monster roars come from right where they are in the scene. But for all that sound bouncing around, the sub never seems to overpower the rest of the system, even when I dare to crank it up. I recently saw Terminator: Dark Fate. I gotta be honest with you... My system, both the picture and the sound, are better. I'm probably going to see Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker at the IMAX theater... but I'm really looking forward to watching at home, in the Gryphon Theater, to really enjoy it. Buy this sub. You will NOT regret it.

Beat subwoofer you can add to any surround sound , I added this 12 inch sub to my Bose acoustimass 5.1 and I’ve never been more happy!

Good power and fun for movies and bass heavy music. But I think I'll go back to sealed subs for better accuracy.

Do you enjoy bass? Klipsch is great sounding speakers and this sub, while the entry line, gives the punch needed. In our bedroom, carpet of course, and this sounds good but due to our oversized room and plenty of furniture to interrupt sound reflection makes it just good. I have a very old polk which this outperforms but still need more for my taste. Downstairs however, an open lay out about 30' x 21' x 9' this thing opens up. All of our cabinets rumble. While I have heard that this is great for music and okay for movies I feel this is great for both. The Hertz is around 30 and 20 is best for movies but downstairs without carpet, this thing pounds. I am looking at adding buttkickers to our furniture but sticking this behind the sofa gives a rumble to out sofa so for now no need for that $300 kit. There are definitely stronger ones including this brand but for 200 this is a must for home audio. Plus it is so pretty to admire after enjoying its power.

I have over 25 years of speaker / subwoofer listening experience with many speakers and subwoofers listened too; and I've also built many quality subwoofer enclosures. So as an audiophile, I know good sound. This subwoofer is average and definitely will never go on my list of recommended subwoofers. There's a reason why this subwoofer is 50% off since only being released for only four months and that's due to the sound quality. So any subwoofer can put out bass, but there is such a thing as bass quality and accuracy and this sub fails on both those two levels. This sub does not go as low as other subs This sub is not accurate across the bass spectrum This is sub is muddy sounding The crossover is average as best With all that being said, this subwoofer gets LOUD and there's not a whole alot of distortion at high volumes. You really have to play with the volume, crossover, and your receiver's settings to get it dialed in to sound decent. Now..........I know it all sounds negative, but listen: If you're looking for sub that gets LOUD and needs to fill a subwoofer void......then this is it BUT If you're looking for accuracy, fidelity, and true low end across the whole bass spectrum......don't get this sub.

I purchased one and it blew me away, bough a 2nd one and now its a little too much. Buy it, don't second guess yourself. Its only money.

Great sound and bass. still enjoying on the weekends

Replaced a 22 year old sub with this one. Absolutely amazing sound. Sound lfills the room and it does not take much power to do it. Very happy with purchase.

The bass this sub creates is incredible. It shakes the whole house. Movies can be felt now.

Great and pretty subwoofer, with " boom" and clean bass. This is my second Klipsh subwoofer, after the R-12SW. I am very happy.

Great punches with big bass effect. One is good enough, two will rock your house.

Got this at Best Buy because on sale it was cheaper than the "10 sub they had. Disregarded reviewers that talked about how it shakes any house its in. Well it sure does. Its shared by my 2.1 audio and my 7.1 home theater using home theater bypass on my preamp. My audio system has two Klipsch 820's, and they don't need much help, but my HT, with Front left and right sat speakers really benefit. Took some time but I finally tamed this thing, and when properly adjusted is really an asset, deep bass that is tight and articulate, but its going to shake the walls when it gets loud no matter what. Very nice, and sure the plate amp might go out, but this is an industry wide problem, and a good excuse to get an external amp that's better, receivers can do all of the functions that a plate amp used to do. Can't tell you how many I have had go out, just not worth worrying about, really. Anyway this is a great sub, and the basics are all there, for 375 $ its a steal, even for full retail its a steal, recommended.

I have been a fan of Klipsch for many years. From my set of KG4s (that I purchased around 1989 and still use daily) to the center and surround speakers, all are Klipsch. I have had several sub-woofers over the years, from non-powered units driven by an old amp, to a custom built unit with twin 12" drivers. I finally got tired of having a massive sub-woofer and wanted to downsize (plus Best Buy had a great sale) and so purchased this sub. I very happy that I did. To my ears it produces nice tight bass and integrates well with my other speakers. It can definitely produce some body thumping bass during movie action scenes.

I was looking at building a 18" home theater powered sub in a sealed enclosure before purchasing this. The black Friday pricing is what pushed the purchase and I'm very happy I did. The primary reason for this sub was going to be for music in a large open area that branches to the rest of our home, aka the Bar. I currently have an older Velodyne 10" ported sub that the music is killing. I'm very happy with this purchase. I also have a Klipsch surround sound system in my theater room (where the velodyne is back at) so I knew kind of what to expect out of this sub. This sub is paired with a Pioneer elite receiver and a polk RM95 surround system in a 20'x18' carpeted room with 8' ceilings.

this is a very nice sub,lots of bone rattling bass