Alternative Subwoofer for Monitor Audio RX Silver £750

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Hi,

Will shortly be purchasing MA's RX6 5.1 speaker package but the sub alone costs £750. To reduce costs I am willing to source an alternative but yet equally competent and great performing subwoofer to complete my home cinema system.

Can you recommend possible alternatives?

I've heard good things about B&W ASW609/610 which was an Award winner in 2009 but not sure what else to consider.

 

[Anonymous]

BK Electronics website

They seem not to give their stuff out for demo, but on other sites people rave about them.

They have a sub called the monolith, and supposidly it would destroy a subwoofer at around the 1000.00 range

They make the sibwoofers on demand and can take 4 weeks, but the monolith is a kitchen table, its massive.

But they have other subs smaller, which supposidly would compete with the RSW12 with ease.

Is there any RSW12's still out there ?

 

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Well Quantum electronics still have some black RSW-12s at £495 click

 

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triniguy247:
Hi,

Will shortly be purchasing MA's RX6 5.1 speaker package but the sub alone costs £750. To reduce costs I am willing to source an alternative but yet equally competent and great performing subwoofer to complete my home cinema system.

Can you recommend possible alternatives?

I've heard good things about B&W ASW609/610 which was an Award winner in 2009 but not sure what else to consider.

I've not heard the RX sub but the RSW12 is stunning. I've seen them for £399 for a while - not sure if there are any left but grab one as for that price, you won't touch it.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that. How does the RS series compare with the RX series from MA? I assume the sub won't be as good as the newer RX series model?

 

[Anonymous]

The word on the street..... And when I say street I mean here..lol

The is not much difference, little tweaks here and there, I think bigboss has one and he preffered it, but I dont think its worth the price difference.

 

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I don't think there's so much difference between the RXW12 and RSW12 - as said.

I think their are differences between other speakers in the range, e.g. RS6 vs RX6 with the changes to the c-cam RST cones. Think the RX6 is less bright with a flatter (i.e. more even) response across the frequency range, compared to the RS6, and this holds for all the rest of the range (apart the sub)