ELAC SUB1225 350 Watt 12" Powered Subwoofer, Black SUB1225-BK

I bought the SVS Prime Pro bookshelf speakers for my small home office, which is about 9' x 9'. While I hoped they would provide enough low end to satisfy my bass addiction, I still wanted more. I moved my trusty SVS 25-31 PC Plus (500 watt RMS) from my living room to my home office and immediately noticed the difference. However, I knew I needed to return the SVS to my living room home theater.After several weeks of online research and watching YouTube reviews and sound tests, I narrowed my search down to SVS, Klipsch, and Elac. I considered the SVS SB-1000 Pro for $600, the Klipsch R-12SW for about $220, and the Elac SUB1225 for $199. The Elac SUB1010 (the 10" version of the SUB1225) had impressive SPL graphs in reviews, making it a strong contender, though I was concerned about its build quality given the price. As a satisfied SVS customer for my home theater setup, I was unsure if the SB-1000 Pro would meet my needs for music listening. Additionally, the 325-watt amp seemed excessive for my small office, and at $600, it was more than I wanted to spend on a subwoofer. Several reviews mentioned a 60Hz "hum" in the Klipsch, so I added the Elac SUB1225 to my Amazon wish list.To my pleasant surprise, I received a notification two weeks later that the Elac was on sale for $150, and I could no longer resist buying it. Fast forward about a week, and my Elac sub arrived. After a weekend of listening, I can say that the Elac SUB1225 has a tighter "punch" compared to the super low end provided by my SVS home theater subwoofer. I started with the gain at the halfway mark and have been gradually adjusting it down. Currently, it is around the 40% mark, and I might reduce it to 35% to prevent my bookshelves from rattling when I turn up the sound (~85db SPL, C weighted, slow response).

The ELAC SUB 1010 is a very good sub FOR THE MONEY.Understand that at full price of $200 you can NOT expect to get ground shaking, sub 25hz results at that price unless you buy used or maybe DIY. Good luck though.That said, this sub does cover 40hz – 100hz quite well without much AUDIBLE distortion or port chuff at all. Below 40hz is where this sub will start to struggle, as it should considering the enclosure size, port tune, woofer size and wattage. At only 55w rms, c’mon. You really can not expect much more out of this sub considering.You can go to “erins corner” website and see that the USABLE output of this sub is 40-100hz. He uses all the correct devices in the correct environment to get these results. Your ROOM however, will ultimately dictate your results. Most rooms need at least 2 subs, not so much for increased output but to get a smoother bass response.I use 2 of these subs in a garage stereo set-up and I have ZERO regrets. There small size makes placing them easy and they disappear into the garage landscape. They fill the low end of the music I listen to from dance, dubstep, rock, pop to heavy metal and rap. This sub, I feel is best used for music rather than home theater.Now I have experience with much higher quality subs but these are many times more expensive and larger. My home theater consists of 3 SVS PB-3000’s and 1 SVS PC13-ultra. Of course they sound better, more accurate, higher output etc but the 4 of them combined costs 18x the costs of 2 of these ELAC subs and do not DISSAPEAR into the landscape visually. They do disappear audibly but I also used REW software and miniDSP to aid in their sonic invisibility.In closing, this a very good sub for the money. I believe it is best suited for music rather than hometheater but can still do the latter as well. Just keep your expectations in check. I recommend 2 subs no matter what sub you get for any application with maybe nearfield listening being the exception.

Versatile connections, with plenty of volume and a type D amplifier. We used this with the old Pioneer plasma, Denon 3803, Polk R15s, Rockville cubes, & a discounted MartinLogan Dynamo Motion 6 center channel to create a 5.2 environment in the family room when we upgraded the recroom Cave (DALI Oberon 5s & Vokal, an LG 65", SVS PB 1000 pro, the old Phase Tech 7 towers for surrounds and 4 Polk ES10s for heights).It's a little big but the sound is good and the price couldn't be beat for the quality. I liked it so much I just ordered another to mate with the vintage Yamaha YSP soundbar and an inexpensive Jimveo projector for shooting video on the side of the barn out back (I've already tested this, but at 30lbs, it'snot really portable lol). I'm thinking of adding some old Polk R2s to that mix.After I bought my first 1225 the price dropped. Amazon said they couldn't help me because it came from the ELAC store. A quick call to the company and they immediately processed a reimbursement for the difference. No reason not to like this.

I went round and round about what sub to buy to fill out my office 2.1 channel system There are decent number of options in the $150-$350ish range out there without a lot of info or feedback on them. Honestly, I'm not sure if you spent double the money you'd get double the quality of this sub. I needed something fairly small, but also a worthwhile addition, filling out the low frequencies with my bookshelf speakers. For me it came down to this, a Jamo S810 or one of Monoprice offerings. I'm pretty happy with the ELAC Sub 1010, as it fits all the criteria I had.Right now I'm running it with some Polk Audio RTi28 bookshelf speakers using a Fosi Audio BT30D and I'm happy with how it all sounds. It goes deep enough, doesn't chuff noticeably and the bass is tight enough to use in a music listening situation. Like any sub, getting the volume, crossover frequency and placement is important. It falls apart pretty quick if you push it too hard, but if you stay within reasonable expectations it's a solid little sub. I had a BIC sub that the amp failed right out of warranty (of course) but they sold me a replacement amp at a reasonable cost with good customer service. We'll see how reliable this ELAC is.