Any Good Local Budget Subwoofers?

[cpals]

I ordered a Dayton Sub-120 12" Subwoofer from Parts Express a week ago and have been waiting for a shipping confirmation so I finally called them up this morning and the lady stated that they were out of stock until 12/19. I'm getting ALL of my equipment by this Friday and really wanted to hook everything up to test a movie out on it, but now it won't sound as good.

Is there any place locally (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc) that sells an equivelant sub for around the same price (<$200)? Or should I just be patient and wait 2-3 weeks for delivery? Argh.

 

[Slick5150]

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[herm0016]

the mtx will not be as good. there is nothing that cheap that will sound like the dayton.

 

[Slick5150]

I'd agree its not as good as the Dayton, but its the best you'll get under $200 locally, and I have one, and it really sounds quite good considering the price.

 

[Tiamat]

just wait it out. Setting up a HT properly isnt just throwing shit together and popping in a movie. Its going to take a half a week of experimentation to get it just right, and it easier to do this with less components.

First get your front speaker's tweeters aligned with your ears as best as possible with their tweeters in the same horizontal plane. Once this is all set, play a little with toe-in angle of the FL and FR, and distance away from the wall behind them.

Then setup your surrounds as per Dolby recommendations.

Then when your subwoofer gets in, hook it up to your receiver and power outlet/extension cord so that it is laying on your listening chair. Crawl around the floor to find where you feel the bass is best. Put the subwoofer at that location.

This is asuming you dont have the aid of a sound pressure level meter which can be very helpful for the next whole level of sound quality refinement in your HT

 

[spidey07]

The sony WM10 (or is it 12?) is actually a very good sub for the under 200 bucks. I had one and it was impressive.

 

[Trader05]

I recently picked up a Polk PSW10 from Circuit City for $170. I'm happy with it, they had a Sony $100 sub that was horrible, and it was definitly worth the $70 extra.