Ok, It has arrived.
Yesturday, after returning from a camping trip, I was greeted by a fair sized carboard box with black printing spelling "Athena AS-P4000 Active Subwoofer yada yada (I think there was even a star that said "400 Watts!" )".
First thing I noticed was that the box was rather small. Much smaller then my DPS-12 and AS-P400 box.
Once opened, I knew why it was so small...
...This thing is tiny! For a 10inch ported subwoofer, I expected it to be bigger then this.
If I had to describe its profile (Ok, I do have to it would be long and slender. Its not as deep or wide as the DPS-12, but its ratios are very different. This would be good for someone that needs a skinny sub, but has depth to spare.
As far as my inial thoughts on Build Quality, it was much lighter then I expected. More on this in the review.
Lasty the sound. I've only played a couple tracks on it (Hot for teacher - Van Halen) so I don't have much experience with its musical abilities and absolutely no experience with its movie abilites (haven't played any yet). The first things I noticed were that it didn't need much volume to keep up with the mains. I think it was running at 5 and needed to be dropped down to 3 3.5 on the dial. I guess it has a fair bit if headroom.
I started Hot For Teacher and was immediately met with rattling. Not from walls, not from the driver, but from the feet. The subs weight along with its plastic spikes were rattling against the floor. I decided to turn it up and see just how bad it was, and then I saw something I had never seen before.
The Sub was vibrating across the floor! On a couple tracks with heavy bass kicks, it would jump half an inch!.
Now I need to find some extra carpet and put it under the feet(its even doing it with shipping foam under the feet!).
Im the mean time, heres a picture of its setup in my system ATM.
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