Customer Reviews

Pioneer TS-SW841D 8 In. Shallow-Mount Subwoofer with 500 Watts Max. Power

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I have only one of these mounted on my rear deck shelf. It's a stealth install and you can't tell it's there till you hear it. It sounds great. I was thinking it might not sound too good without a box but it seems to sound just fine mounted on the underside of my rear deck. My amps crossover is set at 100Hz and I am running 300 watts RMS to it. It sounds great. This is not a sheet metal vibrator type of sub. It provides clear, deep accurate bass at an affordable price. If you want teenage level madness like you hear at some stop lights with the sheet metal vibrating etc.... than get a 12" woofer. This 8" sub packs in plenty of undistorted low frequency tones and the mounting options, well with this low installation depth of 2.5" there are many possibilities out there. Again, I'm only using one of these in my Lincoln and it sounds great. I'm not necessarily advocating free-air installation as the best option but in my particluar set up it was required to keep the install totaly stealth. It does sound great though so in my case it worked out just fine. This 8" sounds more like a 10".

I bought this replace a factory sub in my vehicle and even though I don't crank it like I did when I was 16, it has good sound and a nice range of bass tones. Definitely a good pick for anyone looking for a shallow-mount sub.

I went with a completely invisible subwoofer install by putting this in a box under the rear floor of a VW GTI. The box is very shallow. I run two channels of a small Sony amp supplying exactly the 140W or so that the speaker's owner's manual calls for. I had a sound shop run the wiring for all the components I had assembled. They admitted some serious surprise with the end result (although having a hatch back helps in that regard - might not be as impressive in a sedan trunk).

Overall, very happy. More bass support than I needed or thought possible from my install.

So far I love this speaker...I built a cabinet for it and put it in the passenger floor board of my miata. Takes about about 4" of depth from the passenger, but sounds awesome! I run it with a 300W Pioneer amp. Not a bad setup for $170.

this product works great with my new pioneer speakers and avic-d3 navigation system. I'm very pleased.