Rating  - excellent purchase
all i could say is wow! what bass. when you put on an action movie with a lot of LFE , you will never be the same. awesome product.
Rating - Amazing for the price.
Highly recommended for anyone that needs bass at a budget! Extremely happy with the quality.
Rating  - JBL SUB12 -- good speaker for the price
I have had this sub for about a month now and really like it. However, I'm not an audiophile so I cannot attest to the range and the finer details of it's output. For me, it works great with both movies and music in a medium-sized entertainment area. It is much bigger than I was expecting (although the dimensions were clearly listed in the product specs) and the front cover is down-right unattractive (but I did not buy it for looks).
Rating - Replaced a Mirage S8...smart move!!!
I originally bought the Mirage Omnipolar surrounds + the Mirage S8 (100 watts) for my finished basement thinking that the 100 watt sub would be enough...for acoustical reference, my basement is 1000 sq. ft, has carpet and is drywalled on the walls and ceiling...anyway, the surrounds are phenomenal and but the sub was not powerful enough to fill the room with sufficient bass. I am primarily a music listener, and while the S8 did a fine job reproducing musically, it petered out once the volume crept up a little. I could tell the cone was giving it all it had and there was plenty volume left to go on the receiver (Harmon Kardon). SO...I sold the S8 and did extensive review-searching, price comparison and came to the conclusion that the JBL 12 was the way to go...and boy was I right. This sub MORE than adequately fills the 1000 sq. ft. with clean, clear, tight bass at any volume. It is NOT a club sub...it is not boomy, it doesn't reverb, etc. It simply reproduces music accurately (and this is on day one when the thing hasn't even been "burnt" in) and asks for more. It will shake your pictures, walls, windows and anything else prone to rattling, so batten down the hatches and buy this thing. You can't do better for the price....actually, the S8 was $200 more than this sub and this sub begins to shine where the S8 raises the white flag.
Rating - LOTR finally sounds good
I've had an 8-inch Yamaha sub for years, and it does do a nice job, but to get 30Hz you need a 12 inch woofer and a ton of amp helps. Not certain about the 500 watt power claims, but can easily pound 100 clean watts, i.e., it matches my Yamaha's 100wpc @ .05 THD.
Would have preferred a down-firing design again, but in this day of MY SUV's bigger than Your SUV, it probably makes marketing sense. In a typical forward-right placement the omni-directional effect leans noticeably to the right even with a cut-off set to 50HZ. Side mounted also requires a grill, both a matter of taste and of punishment avoidance from my Golden's 200-pound tail wags.
It lost a star for the grill assembly and un-typically over-stating the amp power - JBL doesn't need to stoop to that, imho. At 200bux though, it was a no-brainer - lucky for me that my 5-year-old Yamaha 8" chose now to die.
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