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About a week or two ago I posted how I unintentionally destroyed my 10 year old Klipsch 4.1v2's by stupidly positioning the sub port down at the floor. It was raised off the ground, but not enough. Anyhow, after reading the forums here for a bit I pulled the trigger and got a pair of Swan D1080mkII's and am loving them.
They really do give you quite a bang for the buck and am very happy with the purchase. But having come from a 4.1 I would like to get some real grunt behind them. I tried hooking them up to my old Yamaha HTR-5730 receiver along with the sub it came with (i believe its a 6 inch 45w down-firing sub) and the Swan's simply over powered the sound that the little sub could produce cleanly. In a way, I thought that was absolutely fantastic
. But now I'm left searching for a sub that can play well with the Swan's. I've read that many of you out there recommend the Dayton sub's from parts-express. The price point is excellent, 100 - 150 bucks USD. I've got my eye on these here...
Dayton SUB-100 HT Series 10" 125 Watt
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton SUB-100 HT Series 10" 125 Watt Powered Subwoofer | subwoofer sub powered sub SUB-100 home theater 5.1 7.1 surround bass LFE Theaters110308 gifts1117 WinningSubwoofers
Dayton SUB-80 8" HT Series 80 Watt
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton SUB-80 8" HT Series 80 Watt Powered Subwoofer | Dayton SUB-80 subwoofer sub powered sub SUB-80 home theater 5.1 7.1 surround bass LFE Theaters110308 gifts1117 cyber121 WinningSubwoofers
Dayton ES8 Elite Series 100 Watt 8"
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton ES8 Elite Series 100 Watt 8" Powered Subwoofer | dayton audio HSU subwoofer hsu subwoofer powered subwoofer 8" subwoofer home theater subwoofer ht subwoofer hsu LCS122208 WinningSubwoofers Dayton25Speakers063009
I listen to a very wide variety of music and some genre's just don't sound the same without the beat behind it. If anyone could give me an idea of which of these ( or any others around that price point ) would be a suitable match power wise, I would appreciate the advice.
Right now I've got these plugged into a Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum, however I'm running Ubuntu Linux, and creative has some pretty crappy driver support. So I lose a lot of the features of the sound card. No use of the front panel, meaning no optical, no spdif blah blah blah. Sucks, I know.
I'm not against hooking them back up via sound card >> HTR-3750 >> D1080's when I get the sub. But I would have to get the proper cables as the output's from the HTR-3750 require I get banana plugs to RCA's (Correct me if I am wrong there). But if I can avoid that I wouldn't mind it as it would save me a ton of space. Would going from sound card >> random dayton sub >> d1080's be ok considering the sub is active as are the d1080's?
A lot of questions, for a hungry mind. Hit me! Thanks in advance
They really do give you quite a bang for the buck and am very happy with the purchase. But having come from a 4.1 I would like to get some real grunt behind them. I tried hooking them up to my old Yamaha HTR-5730 receiver along with the sub it came with (i believe its a 6 inch 45w down-firing sub) and the Swan's simply over powered the sound that the little sub could produce cleanly. In a way, I thought that was absolutely fantastic
Dayton SUB-100 HT Series 10" 125 Watt
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton SUB-100 HT Series 10" 125 Watt Powered Subwoofer | subwoofer sub powered sub SUB-100 home theater 5.1 7.1 surround bass LFE Theaters110308 gifts1117 WinningSubwoofers
Dayton SUB-80 8" HT Series 80 Watt
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton SUB-80 8" HT Series 80 Watt Powered Subwoofer | Dayton SUB-80 subwoofer sub powered sub SUB-80 home theater 5.1 7.1 surround bass LFE Theaters110308 gifts1117 cyber121 WinningSubwoofers
Dayton ES8 Elite Series 100 Watt 8"
Parts-Express.com:*Dayton ES8 Elite Series 100 Watt 8" Powered Subwoofer | dayton audio HSU subwoofer hsu subwoofer powered subwoofer 8" subwoofer home theater subwoofer ht subwoofer hsu LCS122208 WinningSubwoofers Dayton25Speakers063009
I listen to a very wide variety of music and some genre's just don't sound the same without the beat behind it. If anyone could give me an idea of which of these ( or any others around that price point ) would be a suitable match power wise, I would appreciate the advice.
Right now I've got these plugged into a Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum, however I'm running Ubuntu Linux, and creative has some pretty crappy driver support. So I lose a lot of the features of the sound card. No use of the front panel, meaning no optical, no spdif blah blah blah. Sucks, I know.
I'm not against hooking them back up via sound card >> HTR-3750 >> D1080's when I get the sub. But I would have to get the proper cables as the output's from the HTR-3750 require I get banana plugs to RCA's (Correct me if I am wrong there). But if I can avoid that I wouldn't mind it as it would save me a ton of space. Would going from sound card >> random dayton sub >> d1080's be ok considering the sub is active as are the d1080's?
A lot of questions, for a hungry mind. Hit me! Thanks in advance