Best 40-43" TV?

[CageyH]

Well... Popped along to Richer Sounds in Chester today and nabbed another Yamaha sub, which I'd been meaning to do for a while, but just hadn't had the time. £79 these things are, and what a Billy BARGAIN!

Beautifully built for the price (frankly I don't know how they do it), looking like something that cost almost four times as much, and with it being a totally different shape from a normal sub (three times as deep as it is high), and ported from the front, it allows you to place them in the room rather more discretely than is usually the case with subs.

And considering that only a 12" woofer is employed in this design, the Yamaha doesn't half pack a PUNCH, especially when you double them up!!





With me now running two of these babies, at opposite ends of the room, action movies and anything that contains subterranean low-frequencies is reproduced with near-stomach churning visceral impact. Augmented by the bass ABRs on the Celestion 15XR front speakers (and UL6 centre), the physical intensity of gun shots and explosions, for example, is palpable and grin-inducing, in terms of how it adds to the fun of the whole movie-watching experience.

What a riot!

Honestly, if anyone is looking for a cheap-as-chips active subwoofer, which can be placed very unobtrusively in the room and packs suitable low-frequency fireworks to light up any action or sci-fi movie, then I can't recommend the Yamaha YST-FSW050 highly enough. One alone provides a nice 'filling in' of the low-end, but pop two into your home-cinema system, and in a medium-sized room, it damn near puts you centre stage at your local Odeon.

Just go and buy one [or preferably two, if you have the facility] - it's *that* good!

Marco.

How cute.

Get yourself a proper sub:

[Macca]

Thanks - I have one on the tape loops, is that what you mean?

Yes, take a line out from there.

[Jac Hawk]

I don't think you can connect that sub as it only has a line level connection on the back, so you would need a sub output on your amp, however other Yamaha subs have speaker level inputs, so you would run your left and right speakers through the sub 1st then from the sub to each speaker the YST SW160 for instance

[Macca]

Actually you might have an issue there because you would need to set volume independently. Scratch that.

[Marco]

How cute.

Get yourself a proper sub:

Haha - good one!

You're missing the point - the cinema set-up is in the lounge, and we certainly don't want ugly big subs on show, in a room dedicated to portraying the style of a traditional country cottage, hence why the "cute" Yammies were chosen, where they can be HEARD but not seen!

Does the job nicely (and two of them, used in a reasonably small room, do produce rather 'chunky' low-end heft), taking into consideration the compromises imposed in this application

Marco.

[CageyH]

Oh I get that, but there is no replacement for displacement.

[Marco]

Yeah, defo. You should practice that mantra in your main system! Get dem Tannoys we discussed....

Marco.

[CageyH]

I was actually thinking something like this would be nice, and probably cheaper.

[Marco]

Ah, Cabasse... Yes, could be good!

Marco.

[julesd68]

Thanks - have solved the problem by buying a new amp with sub out! One of those Chinese SMSL amps - it's a tiny thing, no idea how good it will be but was so cheap I thought I would take a punt...