Polk Audio PSW10 10-Inch Monitor Series Powered Subwoofer (Single, Black)

This sub-woofer is a great value. I bought it to replace a dozen year old Polk PSW50. I am not an audiophile, and rarely listen to music with my home theater setup. When we do have music playing on this system, it's usually during the holidays or when entertaining friends, so the music quality is not being scrutinized. For movies, this sub gives you the room shaking effects that you expect. For your average home theater enthusiast who is looking for a sub that won't break the bank, you can't go wrong with this Polk.

The unit was easy to set up and adds a whole new dimension to your stereo and movies. Used it with a Sony STRDH500 and hooked it up to the Monaural output and into the L/R speakers stereo jacks in back of the woofer. Tweaked it in between the 2 components with an older pair of PSB Century 4000i's. Yeah it rocks! I'm sure there's better stuff out there, but for under $300, it fills a room 15' x 25' just fine. And if I really want to crank up the base, the Polk has a volume control to go big base or suttle background base.

It looked nice. Had many great reviews. Polk is a very decent brand name, and the price was right, so I bought 2 of them. When 1st hooked up, one had a noticable rattle and buzz. Over the course of the night it became more and more intrusive, and rattled loudly at even the lowest volume...The 2nd one sounded great for one night, then the slight rattle started to creep in, and of course, it just got louder and louder. It was useless by the 2nd day. Well that's my experience with this product. While checking out some Bic America subs, I found more reviews of people returning their Polk Audio subs with the exact same problems I encountered. They seemed to be very happy with the Bic America subs. Thanks for reading my review. I hope it was helpful.
Peace,
Tom

Very good sound quality and features. Works very well with my Yamaha receiver. The overall bass and sound quality is much better than my 8" Yamaha sub woofer. So far I am really liking this product.

I'd been just using 2 Polk floorstanding speaks for a while and decided to complete the 5.1 system by adding this 10" subwoofer, center channel, and Polk surrounds. It definitely is a necessary component of any system because no other speakers can produce the lows of a subwoofer. Most of the time it sounds good, but there are times it sounds distorted. For the price though, it's a great sub, has nice features like auto-shutoff, rca or power line input.