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Subwoofer for around 200 USD for multipurpose usage, please advise

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Hi, I am travelling soon to the US and usually I buy things from amazon (because they accept international credit cards).

I currently have a pioneer sc-07 with 2x energy take flat towers (each having 4x4.5 inch woofers), center flat pannel (2x4.5inch active woofers and 2x4.5 inch passive woofers) and rear flat pannels as well (each having 2x4.5 inch woofers), and with them an energy ESW-V10 subwoofer, the room is large for the speakers but cannot complain, It is pretty good at the sitting area and I cannot always have larger sound because of the neighbours. the room is around (35x12x9), i got these originally for a smaller room earlier but moved them to this larger space. The setup was played around to supply the main sitting area with enough power. i know the room might benefit from larger speakers and sub.

I am not an audio expert, but can manage in few things. The ESW-V10 is a very nice sub, it delivers clean bass, I got it for around USD 400 from 3 years.

Now I have another room (12x11x9) and I have 5 energy classic speakers for it. i am planning to get a butdget receiver for it (possible candidates yamaha 373 or pioneer 1022) depending on budget, less then USD 200 would be good. and I need a subwoofer. I do know that I can get a small sub 8 inch and max 10 inch and it will be enough for the room. and for USD 200 I really cannot go much far.

I have several candidates and need your advice (taking into consideration, that the subwoofer might be placed with the ESW-V10 in case I need to have more bass sometimes, or the ESW-V10 might be moved to the smaller room, and ultimatly the new subwoofer will sit in the smaller room, because no matter what I buy for 200 USD even if a 12 inch sub, i dont think it will compete with the ESW-V10 a 300 watts rms continious power and 1200 peak).
the candidates are too many if they are below USD 200 or little more ( i need to put a 220/110 transformer for all I think unless they are 220), and I need an advice:
- BIC F12
- Polk PSW505 (but it seems people prefer the BIC for more clean bass)
- Velodyne VX-11 (it seems i can get it from other then amazon for around 170 or somewhere in that amount)
- JBL SUB150P Sudio 1 (the other JBLs ES150 and 250 had bad reviews).
- Velodyne Digital Drive PLUS 12 Inch Subwoofer smile.gifsmile.gif which obviously I am joking about because it is a nice one for my larger room. (I am kidding, no need to talk about this one) smile.gif
- Energy ESW-C8 (but has low power) the s10.3 would have been nice but expensive.
etc.

So guys, what would be your advise for me? I am eager to get advise soon because I need to order before I travel.
Thank you.
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Any advice guys or opinion?
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BIC 12.
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Ill second the F12.. I don't have it, but a lot of people praise it and I was going to get it before I nabbed my RW-12D
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Thanks guys for the reply.

Yes I was aiming to the Bic 12, but it seems it went up in price on amazon, but the second in line is the psw505 which went below 200. So it might be one of these two.

from a prestige point of view,i.e. brand name, is the polk psw505 a better value? polk vs Bic and psw MSRP higher than the BIC! I was asking myself that question.

Will these be more powerfull than the Energy ESW-V10 that I have? to be honest it is a nice subwoofer. clean bass
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