NHT SW10 Classic 10 Subwoofer

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The first things we noticed about NHT's SW10 II subwoofer
were its spectacular black-lacquer finish and its smoothly rounded
cabinet. It looks a darn sight nicer than the more typical vinyl-wrapped
cube, making its $500 list price a bit more palatable.

The medium-size SW10 II is solidly built; it measures 14
inches deep, 12 inches wide, and 18 inches high, and it weighs nearly 40
pounds. The sub features a newly designed 10-inch, long-throw aluminum
cone woofer. The cone doubles as a heat sink for the driver's voice
coil; NHT claims that trick minimizes distortion while improving overall
performance.

Once you get past the standard controls for level and
low-pass crossover, the SW10 II's backside looks a little unusual.
There's a small finned heat sink for the 150-watt internal amplifier.
NHT provided line-level and LFE inputs, as well as a receptacle with
tiny holes that accept skinny speaker wires. The biggest surprise was
the Boundary switch, which can tonally compensate for various room
placements.

Mating a heavyweight sub with pint-size sats usually
causes a lack of coherence, which in turn results in a midbass gap. Not
this time, however--the SW10 II not only went deep, it blended
seamlessly with NHT's spunky little
SB-1
satellites. The sub easily reached high enough to produce lots of midbass and jell with the sats. On David Cronenberg's Crash DVD, which features numerous car crashes and deep rumbling sounds, the SW10 II strutted its stuff and pressurized our large listening room with bass.