Sony SA-W3800 15" 200 Watt Amplified Subwoofer

Get Active With Your Bass

With a built-in 200 watt amplifier, this subwoofer is what is known as an active subwoofer rather than passive; active means that a subwoofer picks up and amplifies the signals being sent to it, whereas passive means the unit only picks up and resonates the signals without any extra amplification. An active subwoofer adds the extra power you're looking for in a low frequency effects channel. If you want realistic explosions, roars and rockets with your movies as well as more thump in your tunes, you don't want to be passive about your subwoofer.

Advanced Design

For a subwoofer to blend seamlessly with the rest of your system, you need some control over how it sounds. That's why the SAW3000 has an adjustable level control so you can adjust the volume level to your system and room environment. The long throw driver utilized in this subwoofer is capable of extended cone excursion to produce lifelike bass levels in any type of system configuration. This means that the driver that moves the woofer can move farther, faster to more accurately reproduce the audio signals it receives. The bass you hear will be closer to what the artist or director/producer intended. The Advanced SAW Bass Reflex design maximizes air flow to produce big, full bass. The speaker cabinet design vastly increases bass output. From cones to cabinets, it all adds up to a better sounding system for you. Line-level and Speaker-level inputs provide you with hook up options designed to integrate easily with different system configurations. The SAW3800 features a line in and line out terminals.

Dialing It In

Also important to a great sounding system is making sure that your speakers are receiving the right portion of the audio signal. That's where the variable high-cut frequency adjustment comes in. It allows you to adjust the "cutoff" point for your subwoofer so that each speaker receives the frequencies it's designed for. If that sounds confusing, don't worry. You don't have to understand the physics of sound to adjust this speaker, you only need to know what sounds best to you.