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15" Monoprice SW-15 600W RMS (800W Peak) Powered Subwoofer
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Monoprice has 15" Monoprice SW-15 600W RMS (800W Peak) Powered Subwoofer (41499) on sale for $499.99 - 50% with promo code SHOP50 in cart = $249.99. Shipping is free.
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- 15" front-firing powered subwoofer
- 600W RMS (800W peak) amplifier
- Ported design with down-firing port
- 30-150 Hz frequency response
- Variable phase control
- Variable low pass filter
- Dimensions: 18.1" x 21.0" x 22.7" (460 x 533 x 577 mm)
- Weight: 66.1 lbs. (30.0 kg)
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Written by SaltyOne | Staff- Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $150 lower than the next best comparable online prices starting from $399.99.
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Monoprice has 15" Monoprice SW-15 600W RMS (800W Peak) Powered Subwoofer (41499) on sale for $499.99 - 50% with promo code SHOP50 in cart = $249.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member vid1900 for sharing this deal.
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Thanks to Community Member vid1900 for sharing this deal.
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- 15" front-firing powered subwoofer
- 600W RMS (800W peak) amplifier
- Ported design with down-firing port
- 30-150 Hz frequency response
- Variable phase control
- Variable low pass filter
- Dimensions: 18.1" x 21.0" x 22.7" (460 x 533 x 577 mm)
- Weight: 66.1 lbs. (30.0 kg)
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $150 lower than the next best comparable online prices starting from $399.99.
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The SW-15 is a big, budget home theater sub that is praised for strong output and surprisingly deep bass for the money. Audioholics measurements are cited as showing about 117.5 dB at 63 Hz, around 107 dB at 30 Hz, and roughly 98 dB at 20 Hz, with reports that it can pressurize a medium living room and work well for music and movies. The main cautions are reliability and support, with amp failures and dead units reported around the one to two year mark, and some pointing to better warranty or service from RSL and Dayton alternatives.
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At $250, the SW-15 is described as a lot of SPL for the money and a strong entry-level option. The RSL Speedwoofer 10E/10S is repeatedly framed as the better-built alternative with stronger warranty/support, but it costs more, around $315 for the 10E or about $399 for the 10S sale target.
It can play both music and movies, and several comments say it has enough output to work well in either role at this price. For best music results, the thread emphasizes room correction, PEQ/DSP, and proper crossover setup; without that, bass integration can suffer.
There are reports of plate-amp failures after about one to two years, including units dying just after the one-year warranty. One comment also notes Monoprice may require returning the whole sub for amp issues, unlike some specialist brands that ship replacement amps.
The published 30-150 Hz (-10 dB) spec is disputed by measurements cited in the thread. Audioholics CEA-2010 results are referenced as showing about 107 dB at 30 Hz and 98 dB at 20 Hz, with one comment claiming the SW-15 measures down to roughly 15 Hz.
Yes. The SW-15 has high-level inputs, and one comment specifically recommends it as a decent upgrade for a soundbar setup using a "sub mod."
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The sound quality was great for my medium sized living room. I ended up upgrading to an SVS PB1000 after that, but that's a totally different price range.
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The biggest problem is room mods.
If your $1k sub sounds like trash, sorry but it's not the sub, that's likely user error.
They usually use very basic parametric eqs, when in reality you need ALOT of processing horsepower to produce smooth behavior.
Most also don't do timing but this is less noticeable, more of a texture.
2) Bro wants a sub for 250 bucks that beats out SVS in raw performance.
Take your pick on which argument you sounds best
Not to mention, in reality everything can't be "smooth" out through eq regardless of horsepower.
I'm curious to know what sub and DSP you're using?
Especially if you think a $1k sub that peaks at "60-100hz" will sound like "trash"!
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The biggest problem is room mods.
That said high levels of distortion in the bass can sound very muddy or overly warm - or even like crap.
If you have a 30hrz tone playing loudly and harmonic distortion ramps up to -10db (which not uncommon when stuff is abused or not understood well) then you have can have an extra- not in the recording- 60hrz tone (2nd order) and a 90hrz tone (3rd order) play at half the perceived volume of the original tone. That will sound muddy and that is harmonic distortion. Non harmonic distortion such as Doppler(very audible) and intermodular sounds much worse and the whole thing can sound like crap over driven.
So yah buy a clean sub with enough amplifier power to handle the job.
They usually use very basic parametric eqs, when in reality you need ALOT of processing horsepower to produce smooth behavior.
Most also don't do timing but this is less noticeable, more of a texture.
The issue is making sure you don't try to fill in acoustic nulls due to room modes and SBIR (look this stuff up) which just makes them worse and overdrives the amp.
Timing or 'time delay' if that is what you mean is a non issue with bass in most rooms due to the wavelength. You really think it matters to add some small delay to a 30 or 40ft wave in a room 15x18 feet or whatever?
Was looking at Woot
Oh well!
The double bass can play extremely low notes, typically down to E1 (41.2 Hz), with extensions allowing notes as low as C1 (32.7 Hz)
5-string bass guitar can reach even lower frequencies, with the low B string around 31 Hz
8 Hz
The lowest note that a pipe organ can sound is C −1 (or CCCC), which is 8 Hz, below the range of human hearing and not visible on the chart. However, if acoustic combination (a note and its fifth) counts, the lowest note is C −2 (or CCCCC), which is 4 Hz. In terms of recording and reproduction, many speakers have a low limit of around 40–60 Hz.
Had a set of 4 acoustic suspension Altecs 15" woofers with 5" voice coils (made in USA) (voice of theater set up) that I think were 18Hz. Vietnam era incredible stuff.
Those things are for folks who never move and have a house built around their sound system and don't have a wife that complains.
Go to a large church with a hudge pipe organ and enjoy. I did that on a military trip in Belgium and sat in that church for over an hour and enjoyed every minute.
It does but not that often.
Some large pipe organs, some very large drums, some grand piano's hit around 30hrz
Some electronica, some dub-step, some hip hop/rap
If you need it you need it.
You can not really hear 30hrz at any SPL level though you can feel it. Anything you hear at 30hrz is cabinet vibrations or vibrations in things in the room - or distortions produced in addition to the 30hrz 'note', such as hearing 60hrz as the 2nd order harmonic distortion.
A 4 string bass hits 41hrz
Most typical home sized rooms add about 10db/per octave below 100hrz so a sub that is 10db down at 30hrz is actually not so when in room.
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Some large pipe organs, some very large drums, some grand piano's hit around 30hrz
Some electronica, some dub-step, some hip hop/rap
If you need it you need it.
You can not really hear 30hrz at any SPL level though you can feel it. Anything you hear at 30hrz is cabinet vibrations or vibrations in things in the room - or distortions produced in addition to the 30hrz 'note', such as hearing 60hrz as the 2nd order harmonic distortion.
A 4 string bass hits 41hrz
Most typical home sized rooms add about 10db/per octave below 100hrz so a sub that is 10db down at 30hrz is actually not so when in room.
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