A very well made and relatively compact 10″ powered subwoofer. Produces very tight and precise bass reproduction — especially well suited for bass guitar, string bass and cello. A perfect compliment to B&W 804 and 805 speakers.

It is also quite suitable for home theater use just so long as you keep your expectations real. The 2500 will not shake your teeth lose with movie explosions and crashes — especially in large listening rooms. If you require enormous earth shaking movie theater sub-bass, buy a huge 18″ subwoofer, or two 15″ subs.

I run two ASW 2500 subs for movies and typically just one for music. I can tell you that a bowed concert bass sounds like it’s live in the room. This sub is very music friendly and does an excellent job rounding-out the over-all intended sound reproduction. If you can find one on the used market for under $700.00, it would be a great find and well worth the effort to acquire.

This sub is very sweet sounding, probably one of the best subs for most music, but I have to agree that this sub isn’t enough for HT use. This subwoofer has the ability to blend into almost any speakers without a hint of its own existence. It is very fast and very sweet sounding, it gives bass with a lot of gesture, not just boring boom boom bass. Try speaking with your hands over your mouth, and then speak again without them, that’s the difference between this sub and a few other subs. However this sub isn’t as great for HT use. It lacks that extra headroom when it comes down to the ultra low frequency (below 30hz). This sub can give really high and awesome sounding output between 40-120hz, but performance drops off once you go below 40hz. If you have a track (or more often movies) that peaks below 40hz, this sub will probably start acting a little “different”. The driver can bottom out quite easily with bass peaks below 30hz, without yielding near as much output as it can above 40hz. This short side of it makes it less good of a product for HT use. I have recently upgraded to a B&W ASW CDM subwoofer. It has a 1000Wrms class D amp with a 12″ driver. With a bigger cabinet, bigger driver and bigger amp, this sub performs quite a lot better than the ASW2500. It can yield a fairly linear output level all the way down to 20hz, and gives you those floor shaking, windows rattling low bass when the ASW2500 will just keep bottoming out and complain.