The audio subs on here do love to only recommend certain brands and, worse yet, parrot opinions they’ve picked up second-hand without any real world experience or otherwise good reason for doing so. Case in point, I recently picked up a 12” REL home theater sub that was on sale and basically every audio sub considers REL overpriced and dramatically worse than SVS, Rhythmik, Hsu, PSA, which may be true at the MSRP, but on sale I’ve been extremely pleased with it. Sounds drastically better than the Bic F12 it replaced and shakes the whole house if I want it to; don’t even need two like the majority of the home theater sub will tell you, at least not in a living room the size of mine.
Fact is, if you’re buying dedicated bookshelf speakers and an amp in this day and age instead of a soundbar or Bluetooth speaker, you’re already way ahead of the pack, whether that’s with Klipsch stuff you picked up at Best Buy on Black Friday or Sonus Fabers or Focals you auditioned at a showroom of a hifi dealer first.
The audio subs on here do love to only recommend certain brands and, worse yet, parrot opinions they’ve picked up second-hand without any real world experience or otherwise good reason for doing so. Case in point, I recently picked up a 12” REL home theater sub that was on sale and basically every audio sub considers REL overpriced and dramatically worse than SVS, Rhythmik, Hsu, PSA, which may be true at the MSRP, but on sale I’ve been extremely pleased with it. Sounds drastically better than the Bic F12 it replaced and shakes the whole house if I want it to; don’t even need two like the majority of the home theater sub will tell you, at least not in a living room the size of mine.
Fact is, if you’re buying dedicated bookshelf speakers and an amp in this day and age instead of a soundbar or Bluetooth speaker, you’re already way ahead of the pack, whether that’s with Klipsch stuff you picked up at Best Buy on Black Friday or Sonus Fabers or Focals you auditioned at a showroom of a hifi dealer first.