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(More customer reviews)First, the construction and cabinet of this sub is spectacular. Monster obviously put a lot of effort into the aesthetics and the cherry cabinet works beautifully with other cherry furniture and components I have. Audio performance is very good with clean low frequency reproduction at fairly high SPLs. I specifically selected this sub as my home theater is in a large room and it's up to the task.
The other review which mentioned the power switch location is correct but that's really a non issue. The sub has an automatic signal sense so it goes into standby mode when no signal is present. There's no need to ever fool with the power switch.
Note that this sub can work in two ways. First is with a matching LCR component that sits on the top and gets its signal connection through the feet and brass plates on the top of the sub. The alternate method of operation is a straight sub (which is how I use it). I point this out because as a sub only, you'll end up with four brass plugs visible on the top of the cabinet. Monster does also sell a straight sub in this product family in a low, rectangular case, but I prefer the tall and slender cabinet of the THX SL200.
Operation is straightforward. I have a THX Pioneer amp so a simple RCA connector is all that's required to feed the sub. The only nit I have with operation is that although the sub's mode selector switch indicates 'THX mode', the level control is still operational when normally that would be bypassed. Not a big deal but took me a momemt to figure out what was going on.
I suspect the real reason these have been appearing at a large discount is the same reason I recently picked up some other high end components inexpensively; in this economy few can afford the high price tags and manufacturers are discontinuing these lines. I'm not sure if that's the case with Monster but it wouldn't matter to me anyway. This is a great component.
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