Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
On Aug. 9th I purchased the DLS-3750R. I am returning it this morning. Who in the name of what wants or needs a remote on a sub woofer?. Nothing in the manual told me where the LED was located. Nothing told me whare the infrared sensor was located. And a blue, difficult to see, LED! Egad and gadzooks! I was not impressed with the bass response nor with the operatikon of the controls on both the unit and the remote. I am trying to replace an older model (2002) CHT-8 What a beautiful sub woofe r; a 5 star rating for sure . The excellent, sharp, clear bass would render the windows rattling if desired. It was a beautiful sub woofer and a great loss when it became inoperable. This one is not. I was told by one of your technicians that it would not be worth repairing. Now I am not so sure of that. After I return it I will look at others. I had a Klipsch but returned it. Now I am wondering if I shoud have done so. You want to discuss this with me? (905-934-3119 or my e-mail)! More characters available?; you do not wish to hear them!

Price Paid:  $399.00 from Allstar Audio

Summary:
Setup is easy, however, still having problems setting subwoofer volume level between movies and music. Low volume on movies and boomy on stereo/music. Sounds better on setup at store than my house.

Price Paid:  $499.00 from Sound Advice

Summary:
Not a world class performing sub, but a very nice value for 500 bucks. When I originally hooked up the sub and performed a bsic smoke test (does it work) I was disappointed with its gruff raspy and boomy voice. I almost abandoned it right there. But I thought I'd see how close I could get the sub to tollerable.
I was quite surprised. I brough the volume up to about two thirds, took the sub out of direct mode and gave the cross over a chance at 85hz and set my receiver to 100hz and was pleased with the over all performance although it clearly was way more pressure than the rest of the system was generating. So then I level set the receiver and hand calibrated using a Radio shack SPL meter. ... OK, not so bad. Voices were still a little over done and some LFE that should be subtle wasn't but the big stuff, like Tom Hank's Tommy Gun in Road to Perdition were shockingly good and vivid.

So a tad more tweaking left me with two basic settings in the Subs memory. One for regular TV and one for movies. TV is just for TV where there is just too much noise making its way to the sub. The Movies setting worked quite well for digital sources with a defined LFE track as well as all of my music.

My recomendation is that its a good sub if you have the time and know how to tame it.

Strengths:
Adequate performer, very configurable.

Weaknesses:
Factory setting only illustrated how much tuning was needed. Only four settings for phase correction instead of variable phase correction. Relatively low power for a sub. Could benefit from twice the AMP.

Similar Products Used:
Polk Audio PSW 150
Paradigm Servo-15 (mack daddy Sub)

Price Paid:  $900.00 from LOCAL DEALER

Summary:
ONE WORD AWESOME .......
THIS MONSTER LITERALLY DIGS OUT THE LFES WITH UTMOST EASE THERE BY GIVING YOU A COMPLETE FEEL OF THE MUSIC/EFFECT.
ACTUALLY I HAD HEARD THE DPS SERIES BUT THOSE ARE ONLY SOLD IN AMERICA AND CANADA SO I HAD TO OPT FOR THIS MODEL BUT IT NEVERTHELESS INCORPORATES THE SAME FEATURES AND SO IN THE END I WAS'NT THAT DISSAPOINTED. I USUALLY USE IT FOR MUSIC LISTENING AND THIS SUB MATCHES FAIRLY WELL WITH MY SPEAKERS AND THE OVERALL EFFECT IS REALLY FANTASTIC .I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT MY SETUP GIVES ME SOME SERIOUSLY VALUABLE ENTERTAINMENT.

Strengths:
DEEP LF

Weaknesses:
NONE

Similar Products Used:
NONE, I CAME ,I SAW ,IT CONQUERED