Sony - Core Series 10" 115W Active Subwoofer - Black

Note this review is for "Sony - Core Series 10" 115W Active Subwoofer" although I include comments since I added it to my soundbar. I just wanted to add some depth and more bass to my 2.1 Yamaha sound bar which I bought at discount at costco for 114 which is Very good for what it is! However more bass is needed for using it with movies or TVs with surround programming. I did not want to spend an arm and a leg so sometimes this sells for $99-149 which is discount over regular prices. Plugged it in an it just works..including with Yamaha App to control settings and volume and eq. Very Nice! Now the sound is in a word..Room shaking at least a smaller room! Wow! plus it adds depth and punch to anything really and I have to be careful to lower the setting for volume on the sub-woofer otherwise it can overpower the soundbar. Over all I get a lot of depth and clarity and YES Punch and BASS you CAN FEEL! This was a great choice don't need to spend more and with sound bar I could not be more pleased! Added benefits: Subwoofer is easily recognized by my soundbar and APP for it. It has Automatic power on switch which works great. Has cutoff and reverse phase switches for more enhancement and tweaking of subwoofer on subwoofer. Extra connections. And a 10" subwoof with a lot of Punch and easily loud enough for small to med room. Bass you CAN feel and shake the windows. Well done SONY Truly a "Best Buy"!

This sub-woofer is an incredible performer for its price point. (I purchased mine for $99 on sale.) I would argue that a better performing sub is not available for less than ten times the price of this one. I am using this sub with my old receiver and two of the Sony 3-way floor speakers from the same series. My receiver does not have a sub out, but this unit has speaker-level inputs, which also handle the impedance-matching, and which have been working fine. It took a bit of trial and error to dial in the low-pass frequency for this unit, as the adjustment potentiometer does not have frequency markings, and the speaker-level interface does NOT seem to act as a high-pass filter for the speaker-level signal that is passed on to the main speaker cabinets. All of that said, I am quite happy with the balance that I obtained after about 30 minutes of adjusting and listening. I should add that I listen to a wide variety of music, and fully recognize that only one of this sub might not be adequate to faithfully reproduce the low frequency portion of much popular music. That said, one could easily connect two (or even four!) of these to extend the low frequency response of a larger system and still spend considerably less than what a single unit to match such performance would cost.

Great quality subwoofer, I was deciding between this and the Polk PSW108. I got lucky and was able to look and hear both of them at my local Bestbuy before I purchased. The main reasons I went with this unit over the Polk are below: 1. The Sony is smaller than the Polk, so it takes up less space in my living room. I also think it looks a little better. 2. The Sony has better specs on paper, 28-200hz, vs 35-200hz for the Polk. In theory, the bass should get 7hz lower on the Sony. 3. The quality of the materials is better on the Sony, the plastic and housing is much better made. 4. The actual subwoofer driver is made of a higher quality rubber on the Sony instead of foam on the Polk, it feels better quality and I would image it lasting longer and taking a heavier beating over time. 5. The Sony has 115w and the Polk has 100w. So the Sony is slightly more powerful. 6. The same Polk has been on the market for at least 8 years, most likely using the same technology from 8 years ago. This Sony is a fairly new offering, I have to believe technology has come a long way in 8 years and the Sony probably is more up to date. I have been very happy with my purchase so far, our living room is average size, maybe 300sqft. The subwoofer fills the room with bass very well.

For $199, I wasn't expecting much and kept my receipt close by in case I didn't like it and wanted to return it. Well, that's not going to happen. I'm still in shock! This has got to be one of the best sounding subs I've heard yet, and I've heard and owned many. SVS, HSU etc. After a couple of hours of run/burn in, it just comes alive. Granted, this is definitely a sub where the saying "less is more" seems appropriate. Don't cram it in a corner and up against a wall. Keep the volume realistic and low as well as the crossover and you will be rewarded with tight, punchy, deep bass. Not boomy or sloppy and one-noted. This thing absolutely floors me. And to make matters even better, it's does an excellent job with both music and movies. You hear it when you're supposed too, not all of the time. Be patient and set it up properly and your jaw will drop to the floor..

I have been listening extensively to this Sony SACS9 subwoofer with only a budget Vizio soundbar and an old Vizio plasma screen set for several weeks, pending my purchase of additional speakers to complete my planned 5.1 setup. Yeah, I know. However, even with this temporary and extremely minimalist setup, the Sony has been absolutely stunning with music and movies. This is not coming from a newbie with a bad ear who has never heard great audio. This sub performs way beyond what even the optimum Best Buy set up can allow you to appreciate. With some time to optimize its position in my media room and its settings, it simply delivers with thunderous authority or with delicate subtlety and every good thing in between whatever it should from every music or movie sources I send to it. I am just stunned by and very happy with the very deep, clean, and responsive performance it delivers. The specs say down to 28 Hz and it is every bit of that without boominess or notey resonances or chuffing. At no time do I ever think I am missing any lower bass. It puts out the kind of clean and powerful low bass/LFE that is fully satisfying in my 15 x 18 x 8 (ceiling) media room. I can turn the gain down for just a hint of Hollywood mayhem and destruction or the thundering symphony, or can crank it up to hear and feel as though it has just put them in the middle of the room. I do not like listening much above 90 dB's, but this sub can easily jog along with my Vizio soundbar to very clear and undistorted hearing-damage levels I believe are above 100 dB's. This sub is a real deal at regular price, and even better on sale. You will be very happy with this high quality, home run sub by Sony.

These subs (I have two connected to a Denon 7.2 ch. X2400H AVR) are perfect for my needs. That is, accurate LFE reproduction for movies, and a nice low end lift for music and general content. They compliment 7 full range matched speakers nicely. I would think they would be super additional bass for someone with more limited range mains. I haven't used the line level inputs, yet, but they're a nice feature should I want to use them on a 2 channel amp someday. What they're not at all good for is creating unnatural and distorted wall shaking bass effects. But they sound just fine to my tastes for home theatre or general audio, long as the setup is right. I looked at and almost bought far more expensive subs, but settled on these. I have no complaints so far. The only other subs in this range with any real quality didn't quite match the specs of these. Even a few of the more expensive subs weren't much better... just higher wattage and, likely, a bit better built. Rather refreshing, as I've never really thought much of Sony speakers generally; great TVs, but not my favorite audio stuff. Of course, specs and name are meaningless if it doesn't sound good to your taste. Best advice: listen, if you can, before buying.

This is a great budget-friendly subwoofer. My local Best Buy only had the Polk PSW 108 and Klipsch available to sample, so I couldn’t sample this ahead of purchasing. I liked the Polk, but was unimpressed by the 10” Klipsch comparatively. I ultimately decided to order this Sony, instead, simply because the frequency response was rated lower and it had slightly more wattage than the Polk. It also matches my Sony SS F6000 floor speakers perfectly. I did expect a bit deeper bass with its rated frequency response, but it is plenty adequate and a remarkable improvement over the Boston Acoustics that my receiver came with, which was only rated at 50-170hz and cut out frequently. The Polk PSW 108 at Best Buy did seem to sound better refined than this, but it’s still adequate. Sound quality is actually quite impressive with TV/movies; it’s music (rock, at least) where I think it’s lacking a bit. I found setting the crossover from my receiver at 80hz produced the best overall, and most balanced sound. Anything higher got to be too muddy. Keep this in mind when pairing this to your speakers. I do appreciate being able to turn off the auto-power feature. This prevents the sub from shutting down when there is a period of little-to-no bass sent to it.

I bought this sub for my family room AV set up. It's a good sized room about 13 feet by 20 feet with a sloped ceiling that rises from 8 feet to about 12 feet. This little unit, positioned in a corner behind a recliner chair, provides plenty of bass that fills the entire room. In fact it'll bass down the room pretty intensely if that's what you're wanting to do. It's powered by a twenty-year-old Sony stereo receiver and I keep he volume on the sub at about 70% of the max . If I want to adjust that level I just adjust the sub setting on the tuner. But I rarely do. The tuner has a max volume of 30 and when set at 7 or 8 the volume for the center channel and surrounds along with the sub's bass is perfect for family movie night. Any more than 12 kicks out way more volume and power than we usually need. If you're looking for an affordable sub, with decent power, and you don't have a highly discriminating hear for sound I strongly recommend this unit. I'm very happy with it.