I use a small Sunfire SDS8 in my office setup at work, and have been happy with it. Can be found under $300 on amazon. Is it as good as my Rel’s at home? No, but I don’t expect it to be. It fills out the lower registers adequately for a workplace environment where by definition I am not rocking out. It only specs down to 32db, and that shows in performance, but again, I’m trying to balance getting decent bass performance using small bookshelf speakers (Spendor, Kef, NHT rotation) without being asked by building management to take the sub home because annoying neighbor tenants -- so far, so good. My amps that I’ve used it with are Bluesound Powernode 2 and (soon, waiting to receive) marantz pm7000n, both of which are in the same ballpark as your yamaha. The SDS10 and SDS12 are not too much more $$$ usually, depending on how much space or how big your room is.
FWIW, I previously tried Monoprice’s low-cost 12" 150W (around $100-150, varies) sub that gets some good ultra budget shootout reviews (I forget the model number) but both times I owned it, it developed a humming noise that I couldn’t stand. Returned the first one for replacement, and even the replacement suffered from same problem, so I returned as well for refund. There are lots of other user reviews stating same.
If your budget is really low, I can also recommend the Acoustic Audio by Goldwood PSW12 for around $150, which I have in my secondary (bedroom) HT setup at home (replaced the Monoprice for me). It has been solid for HT and also for music (2.1ch) for when I was streaming music there before upgrading on music (still use it for HT). At these prices as long as they don’t hum (really important), and then can produce decent bass without sounding too boomy, it’s a win.
Probably the $500 SVS or Rel will beat what I’m discussing here I’d guess, but everyone’s budget is different.
FWIW, I previously tried Monoprice’s low-cost 12" 150W (around $100-150, varies) sub that gets some good ultra budget shootout reviews (I forget the model number) but both times I owned it, it developed a humming noise that I couldn’t stand. Returned the first one for replacement, and even the replacement suffered from same problem, so I returned as well for refund. There are lots of other user reviews stating same.
If your budget is really low, I can also recommend the Acoustic Audio by Goldwood PSW12 for around $150, which I have in my secondary (bedroom) HT setup at home (replaced the Monoprice for me). It has been solid for HT and also for music (2.1ch) for when I was streaming music there before upgrading on music (still use it for HT). At these prices as long as they don’t hum (really important), and then can produce decent bass without sounding too boomy, it’s a win.
Probably the $500 SVS or Rel will beat what I’m discussing here I’d guess, but everyone’s budget is different.