REL S510 or S812

With subs, bigger is almost always better than smaller if for no other reason than the cone doesn’t need to travel as far resulting in less distortion. It’s much easier to overload a 10” sub than it is a 12” sub and even if you only need  a larger sub five percent of the time, then that will be five percent of the time you won’t be disappointed if you have the larger sub.

I to am a REL owner along with Rythmik and SVS and I agree with Hilde45 that Rythmik as well as SVS are a better deal. Though I will admit that REL has excellent customer service.

Audiorusty,

Does your Rythmik preform as well for music as your REL?

Which units do you have?  I do have a REL HT 1205 that I plan to use along with whatever other sub I buy to enhance just the LFE. 

Audiorusty,

Does your Rythmik preform as well for music as your REL?

Which units do you have?  I do have a REL HT 1205 that I plan to use along with whatever other sub I buy to enhance just the LFE. 

I’ll bet a sub for music would be a waist as those speakers already go down to 22HZ. If I was you I’d live with them for a while and see if you really need sub/s and for what application? my bet is you will only want them for movies if at all needed..... better to spend that money on room acoustics first.

Im very happy with bass out of those speakers, but that being said i still find that even my HT 1205 turned up just a few clicks helps "fill" things out a bit. And if we are feelin like some rap, techno, or edm, ill turn it up a couple more just for fun. 

As far as room accustics, i have all that the wife will allow.  My profile pictures are not current. I went through the proccess of placing my speakers where bass and sound stage seamed best to my novice ears. I marked their spots and then I had a local dealer come out and do the ARC(Anthem room correction) process and it really improved things.  To my ears my system is sounding very good especially considering the room dynamics. The reason I want to add a better sub is to improve the overall SQ of my 2 channel set up. REL and others claim to improve mid and high end as well as sound stage.  At the same time i do want a bit more boom for movie time. The HT1205 was all that budget allowed when I began this journey. I feel its the week link at this time so time for an upgrade. As stated before, I still may use it as a second sub for LFE