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Best sub for Sony dg910?

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What is the best sub to buy less than around 300 for the Sony dg910. Mostly for surround sound, also some music.
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Originally Posted by clutch69 View Post

What is the best sub to buy less than around 300 for the Sony dg910. Mostly for surround sound, also some music.

I see you made it over here to the sub forums!

Matching a receiver to a sub is really not a concern. What sub is a good choice for you depends on a great many other things however.

In particular:

What is your room size? LxWxH
Does it open into any other rooms? Doors, etc.
Do you have neighbors? Are you in an apartment?
Do you have size restrictions? Some subs can get quite large.
Do you aesthetic requirements? Wood Finish, Piano Black, etc.
Are you concerned with overall output (most SPL), or would you like a smaller sealed design?

With answers to these questions, we can make our suggestions.

But honestly with around a $300 budget there are only going to be a few subs worthy of mention around here.

Elemental Designs A2-300
Premier Acoustic PA-120
Cadence CSX-12 or maybe CSX-15
HSU STF-1 or STF-2
and maybe even the Dayton Sealed 15" Kit from PE.

Good luck and check the stickies at the top of this forum for FAQs with regards to choosing a subwoofer.
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The PA-120 is probably one of the better subs for home theater in the under $300 category, though it's rep is it's not as "musical". The Velodyne VX-10 and some of the Infinity's I believe have tended to be recommended as more musical in the inexpensive sub category, but the Velodyne won't go as low as the PA for home theater. So if you want the emphasis to be on HT, go with the PA, if you want more balance with musicality but a bit less punch VX-10. Now, you will immediately get people on here who insist that you really need a sub that goes to 5Hz because they think you really have thousands of dollars to spend and are just being cheap, but assuming you know your budget and thousands isn't an option, those options would probably suit you =). The PA seems to be going for $258 shipped or so, the VX-10 is the bargain at $189.
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Originally Posted by Green Chemist View Post

I see you made it over here to the sub forums!

Matching a receiver to a sub is really not a concern. What sub is a good choice for you depends on a great many other things however.

In particular:

What is your room size? LxWxH
Does it open into any other rooms? Doors, etc.
Do you have neighbors? Are you in an apartment?
Do you have size restrictions? Some subs can get quite large.
Do you aesthetic requirements? Wood Finish, Piano Black, etc.
Are you concerned with overall output (most SPL), or would you like a smaller sealed design?

With answers to these questions, we can make our suggestions.

But honestly with around a $300 budget there are only going to be a few subs worthy of mention around here.

Elemental Designs A2-300
Premier Acoustic PA-120
Cadence CSX-12 or maybe CSX-15
HSU STF-1 or STF-2
and maybe even the Dayton Sealed 15" Kit from PE.

Good luck and check the stickies at the top of this forum for FAQs with regards to choosing a subwoofer.

I looked at some of the on-line sites you posted, nice looking stuff, I am a noob to speakers. Anyways, some of the on-line subs look as though there are terminals on the sub like you would find on normal speakers, like a red and black?? On my dg910 is just one cable much like an RCA jack, there are actually 4 of them, but I believe this would be to hook-up 4 separate subs. I live in the city, so yes, I DO have neighbors, as a matter of fact my neighbor that lives above me is a total see you next Tuesday, probably jealous of my good looks, regardless, I plan on moving out within 6 months to a house, so in the long run, loudness would be ok, however, not a total necessity. Mostly will be used for blu-ray viewing and video games, and yes music as well. More concerned with a good overall sound, and people seem to think a sub is a good place to start. 300 to 400 is max, I cannot justify spending more than that. I make 40 k a year, so I am not rich at all, but do enjoy some of the finer things in life.
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I took a look at the back of the DG910 and it just has a single subwoofer "preout" like most receivers. You can split them with RCA splitters for more subs, but when you said it had outputs for 4 subs (that is extremely unusual, as even very expensive receivers only have 2 subwoofer preouts), I'm not quite sure what you were looking at.

The speaker level inputs you noticed on the back of some of the subwoofers are just that. They allow you to hook up a subwoofer to a receiver that doesn't have a dedicated subwoofer preout like yours. This works great with old vintage two-channel receivers for example.

Most of those subwoofers listed still have two RCA type inputs. Most people get around this by running a RCA Y-adapter or just running their single subwoofer preout cable to only one of these inputs (usually the left for some reason).

With your budget in mind, there are few here who would argue that the A2-300 will be your best bet. The only downside to this subwoofer is that they are built to order, so you might wait a few weeks before it's delivered. The other downside (and most ported subs for that matter) is the size. Check the measurements. Make sure it will fit, and plan on trying it in as many different locations as you can within your room.

Placement is everything with a subwoofer. I'm still not quite sure I have the best location possible for my CSX-15 in my room. But there are only so many places I can put such a big sub.
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If you order now, like tonight before midnight eastern I think, you cant ge the Outlaw LFM-1 compact for $319 shipped. It is normally $399 plus like $60 to ship.
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ahhhhh, so the 4 sub out's on my dg910 are really only one dedicated out, and then split for three others?? I better make sure I am using the dedicated main out for the sub then. Yeah, I don't get why all these modern subs you have to use a y cable. I went to Best Buy yesterday just to look at some of their more expensive subs, and they had the same inputs on the back, using the y cable. Aren't all modern recievers this way nowadays?? Anyways, thanks for all the advice, I can see just by reading up on some threads here, that people in the speaker, and even just sub forums are equally as critical over these types of things as the people over in the television forums. Well, I guess I will just spend some time trying to sift through all this info. Thank you for all the info.
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