80s 80s 12 Inch Collection 8th Wonder 90s 914 Hit Squad 30 Seconds To Mars.Bottom Line: hard to go wrong with Polk, and the HTS subs have great specs and a very cool retro-future design, but theyвЂ™re still quite new and rather expensive. If you ask me, all their current amplifier offerings are dead-ringers for made-in-China offerings.The clip below is an incomplete bootleg audio recording of the bands. Tonewin itself appears to be defunct, so Audio Nirvana is no longer selling their 6V6 model. Whatever, it is safe to say the so-called US Audio Nirvana 'factory built' 6V6 amp was designed and built in China, at most slightly modified.

WeвЂ™ve seen a lot of popular and otherwise decent subwoofers with ceilings that are quite low, which compromises on an understated but very important purpose of a subwoofer besides actually producing decent bass: to take the work off the main speakers so they can really focus on the mids and highs, the components of which are going to be really designed for.The problem though? TheyвЂ™re kind of expensive, or rather there are older generation speakers that are just as good, have better specs, and are significantly cheaper, and this includes some older Polk products that we like. The response range of each is also excellent, not just the low floors of 25 and 22 Hz respectively, but the decently high 180 Hz ceiling that allows the crossover to be as high as it needs to be to optimize the main speakers. The 200 W 12 inch is plenty loud for all but the really high end set ups, and a smaller 10 inch 100 W sub is perfectly adequate in itвЂ™s own right for many low to mid level main speakers it would pair with. And theyвЂ™re great speakers with great specs, which is whatвЂ™s ultimately important.

See the links below for more information on that. WeвЂ™d say only get that one if you can snag it for a better price.There are also significantly cheaper subwoofers that are perfectly decent вЂ“ they wonвЂ™t have as much power, but many people donвЂ™t actually need anything beyond a smaller ~50 W sub. This is a good choice that remains one of our overall favorites.The Klipsch R-12SW (reviewed here) is a similar 12 inch subwoofer with the same power as the HTS 12, but an inferior response range. If you like the design and you donвЂ™t mind paying a premium for it, by all means get one.But if you donвЂ™t care about aesthetics and youвЂ™re focused on pure value, there are better choices.The Polk PSW505 (reviewed here) is a popular alternative thatвЂ™s just as good if not better than the HST 12 and is significantly cheaper. Our Overall Take, As Compared to the CompetitionPolk is always a reliable option for budget-tier speakers, and these are perfectly decent.

Audio Nirvana 12 Inch Review