After all these years I think Infinity has finally made a subwoofer right! I originally heard it's bigger brother, the HPS-1000 at CES and was really impressed at what a good job it did with music. I was also really impressed when I found out the price (about $1300 retail i believe). I thought the price would be a lot higher than that. I came across a great deal on the HPS-250 and decided to give it a try. Like it's bigger brother it does a great job with music-a quick tight bass that sometimes may sound a little muddy depending on the material you're listening too, but for the most part very musical. This is the first powered subwoofer for under $1000 that I have heard that does a good job with music. All the other ones I have heard were good for movies but not so good for music. And yes the HPS-250 is also great with movies. Of course no subwoofer is perfect so these are the things I don't like: The knobs feel kind of cheap (even though they are on the front which I like), the crossover is not defeatable, and there is no auto-standby mode. All in all a fine product. Good job Infinity!

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I have this setup as a pass through subwoofer. I have the left and right front speakers hooked up to it instead of using the LFE connection. My system is in my basement and it has to fill a romm that is approximately 20'x30'. My receiver is not Dolby digital so it doesn't have a dedicated subwoofer output. It's a sony dolby surround receiver SDE325. My receiver is the last item I need to upgrade. I'm looking at either the Marantz sr7000, sr8000, or the denon 3300.

I have magnepan MG II front speakers. The Magnepans always sounded great except they aren't good at producing bass. My hunch is that to have good bass, the speakers must be able to displace large volumes of air. The Magnepans use ribbon's instead of normal speakers and are unable to move much air. With the addition of this subwoofer, my system sounds much better. I have the gain set to 4.5 and the crossover set to 100Hz. There is a button for whether the speakers are in phase with the front speakers or out of phase. I don't know what I have it set to because I can't hear any difference between the two settings.

I have a bic venturi subwoofer hooked up to my Dolby Digital system in my family room and I never realised what a piece of junk the bic subwoofer is until I used the infinity. The Infinity sounds great with music and even better with dolby surround. I highly recommend this subwoofer to anyone who doesn't want to spend in excess of $350. The subwoofer is big and heavy. I'm 6'0" and 215 lb and I wasn't happy carrying the thing down my basement stairs.

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