In Reply to: REL Q108E vs Velodyne SPL800R posted by WilsonTTC on March 19, 2007 at 15:23:08:
Ended up with 2 of the Velos for my large room. Found them a little more punchy/weighty - suspect it's the 1000 watts at work. One of the British rags did a "shoot out" of small subs recently - it included the 108e - and the Velo came out on top by a wide margin in their eyes. I didn't find it a wide margin bit to me it was noticably better. The downfiring REL might be easier to place however. The Velos have a cool equalization feature that seems to work well although the volume control is all electronic - pushing a button to move up or down and you can only tell what level you are at by counting the number of times the front light blinks - huge, ridiculous pain in the ass when you are trying to dial it in - a manual dial on the back would have been better and cheaper.That said, I am going to go to a full range speaker vs the sub for seamlessness and appearance (WAF) - so you might see some Velos for sale somewhere soon.
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