Velodyne Impact-10, Velodyne + Bose = Smiles

Overall Rating55555

Velodyne + Bose = Smiles

My system consists of a Sony reciever STR-DG720. I have been using all Bose for quite some time. Front speakers goto the Bose subwoofer, then to the dual cubes. The rear speakers are a second set of Bose cubes. I am also using the Bose center channel. The system was sounding great, but lacking something. I have always heard, Bose, all highs no lows. Well sad to say this is true. The bose sub just doesnt cut it, for music or movies. So after much research, and talking to people in the business, i purchased this Impact 10 from amazon.
First, it came in 2 days, as the 2 day option i selected promised, but i just wanted to thank amazon for that, they always have been great with shipping. But now to the point. I have a 15×24 room, with a 61 inch LED engine DLP on the 1 side of the room, and now the Impact 10 in the corner beside the tv. This sub FILLS the room. Music comes to life, it fills in all the mids, and lows i was missing. I listen to everything, i have tested it with RnB, Rap, even Country and Drum n Bass. Everything now comes to life. As for movies, all i can say is WOW. Transformers, the first 10 minutes, amazing~!, Black Hawk Down, AMAZING.
I would deffinatly recomend this sub to anyone debating purchasing a 10″ sub. I had the Polk 10, the JBL 10 and this in my cart over and over for 2 days. After talking to my buddy who resells audio equipment, he assured me, spending the little extra would be worth it. You can get the Polk 12 for less then this Velodyne 10, and i would say your wasting your time and money. This 10 does a great job!. A+ in my book. I hope this review helps atleast 1 person!
Im going back enjoying the new Stereo Setup!
* As i was previewing my post, the wife came down and said ” Just so you know the house is shaking. * - thought id pass that along. ;P ( it is set to half volume )

Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Velodyne Impact-10 10-Inch Powered Subwoofer Black Electronics, was written by M. Sammartino.

The average rating for this item is 5 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (2)

M. Sammartino

February 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Velodyne + Bose = Smiles
Rated 5 stars.


freshgrilled

March 1st, 2010 at 1:55 am    


Overall Rating55555

Great product for a good price.
I’m actually surprised at the lack of reviews on these units, but as they are relatively new, I guess that’s to be expected. I recently had a Klipsch sub’s amp burn out on me and decided to replace it with something a little beefier (It gave me 7 years of love). But as the outage was unplanned, I didn’t want to spend a large sum on the replacement. I was looking at the Velondyne vx-10 which has had a lot of nice reviews and could be picked up online for as low as $140 or so, though all brick and mortars I have contacted sell them for ~$249. I would have picked one up even despite the odd color scheme, but found that Velondyne had released the Impact series recently, and what reviews I could find suggested that they had significantly greater output with the kind of sound quality you would expect from Velondyne. They looked much nicer too.
The connections are nice, I would have preferred the crossover frequency knob was a little more clearly labeled, but since there’s a gradual roll off, it shouldn’t have any significant effect if you’re a notch off.
The bass is easy and smooth, and if you set things up correctly, I found it a tad boomy at first, but spend a little time adjusting things and found that it had a very pleasantly flat (in a good way) deep output. I don’t have the kind of location where I can turn it up too much, and I think, perhaps, for my apartment complex, this woofer is ridiculously overpowered. But you can leave the volume down and still enjoy a nice pleasant “punch” even when it’s hardly audible. I’ll be moving soon, and I have a feeling even with a moderately large living room and some yard space, I’ll always risk angering the neighbors if I ever leave the volume up to high.
Really enjoying the kind of bass I never knew existed in some of the music I had. And from what I hear, it does an even nicer job with cranking out the special effects in movies. I’m sure you can spend $1000 more and get something that sounds better, but for the price, I can’t imagine there is much out there that rivals this…

Highly recommended.


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