Sony SA-W2500 Performance Line 100 Watt Subwoofer
- 100 Watt Amplified Subwoofer
- 10 Mica Reinforced Cellular Woofer
- Motion Feed Back Technology
- Speaker and Line Level Inputs
- Frequency Response 28-200Hz
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August 16, 2010 3:45 pm
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By T. McKenna, August 16, 2010 @ 5:22 pm
I sent this subwoofer back. I have a Sony receiver so I thought a matching subwoofer would provide the best quality sound. I only watch Discovery, History, Science, news channels so my requirement was something that was middle of road for the occasional movie.
I tried seveal recently relased action, science fiction, stuff that was 5.1 but I never got a peeop out of the thing. I set it up to the recommended settings on both the subwoofer and the receiver. I’m going to spend a little more money and get someting that at least provides some since of bass.
Rating: 1 / 5
By Jason Spencer, August 16, 2010 @ 8:03 pm
I have blown 3 of these. 2 in the last 3 months. I advise not keeping it at the max level all the time as this seems to be the cause of it blowing
Rating: 2 / 5
By Yong Jin Park, August 16, 2010 @ 10:26 pm
its a great subwoofer;
but how do you install it with two rear speakers?
Rating: 4 / 5
By Alex, August 16, 2010 @ 11:00 pm
Before I start this review, you should know that I am pretty well informed when it comes to speakers and audio.
After having owned this sub since January 2010, I think I can give a pretty detailed review on it. Basically, it’s a quiet subwoofer good for low volumes and small rooms.
It does sound nice, though, at low volumes in a small room. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want a lot of low frequencies or high volumes and you really only want it for casual TV programming with the occasional movie, then this is the sub for you. It stays distortion free and reproduces the lows pretty nice at casual to low volumes. And it’s relatively small for a subwoofer, so its size doesn’t limit where you want to put it.
But if you’re like me and you want a lot of bass to compliment loud speakers, seriously look elsewhere. I’ve tested this sub in a 10×13 bed room, a 12×22 living room, and a very large room (probably 15×40 or so). In all of the applications, it really doesn’t sound good. I mean it’s pretty obvious that it wouldn’t fill a 15×40 room, but even for the living room and bed room applications, it still didn’t fill the room. There were dead spots everywhere, no matter where you placed it, including the bed room.
And on top of all of that, something inside of the speaker enclosure or the driver itself broke, because now when I play the sub at medium to high volumes with low frequencies (below 50hz), the actual speaker cone looks like it’s being sucked into the enclosure. That’s pretty much the best way I can explain it. It gets distorted early on and because of the problem of it not moving normally, it just can’t produce high volumes. Maybe there is a way to fix it, I don’t really know. I tried sealing the port on the back with a sock just to see what would happen, and the cone moved normally. I don’t know why, but it just does. But when I did seal off the port it lost a lot of volume and I was afraid the enclosure wasn’t the right size to be sealed for that particular driver. It didn’t always have this problem of being sucked into the enclosure, and I can’t remember when it started having this problem, but even before when it still worked properly it just didn’t put out high volumes.
I’m actually going to keep this sub though, and only push high frequencies through it (80hz-50hz), and now I’m going to buy a Klipsch Synergy Sub-12 to take up the remaining frequencies, as I know that is a very nice and loud subwoofer.
Overall, it’s great for low volumes and higher frequencies, it’s small and it looks pretty nice, but if you want high volumes with hard hitting lows, look elsewhere (especially 12″ over 10″ for hard hitting lows at high volumes).
Rating: 2 / 5
By M. Whitmarsh, August 17, 2010 @ 12:38 am
The sound at medium to high volume was fine. At 35% of volume or lower on my Onkyo receiver the auto detect didn’t work. If I turned the volume up, auto detect would pick up the signal. When I turned the amp down it would shut off within a minute or two. I tried it with multiple movies and types of music and it never work at 35 or lower. I had to return it.
Rating: 2 / 5