Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had gone through three smaller 8” subwoofers before, then came across the glowing reviews for the PSW10. It was every bit as good as they say, like 200% better than anything I had before. I was so impressed with the musical performance (tightness and accuracy) that I began budgeting for something even better. Plenty of audiophile forums claimed the SVS SB12-NSD was light years ahead of the PSW10, although it also costed 5x more. After breaking in my new SVS, I found those claims to be much exaggerated. The biggest difference of course, being a 12”, it could reach down to a bone-rattling 15Hz, which I like, but may not be everyone’s cup of tea. For every other attribute, the PSW10 was 90% the quality of the SVS for essentially 20% the cost. When I say 90% the quality, I mean I had to replay a bunch of songs side by side with both subwoofers, and assigned a subjective 10% more tightness to the SVS. Maybe some audiophiles consider that last 10% improvement night and day, but I just call it 10%, as in only really noticeable when compared side to side. In conclusion, I concur with many other reviewers, you can’t go wrong with the PSW10. Nothing can touch it at its price point.