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Rythmik Audio F12/F12-400 vs JL Audio E-Sub e112

Hello everyone! I am choosing a subwoofer mainly for listening to music in stereo. There are two candidates, as the title suggests. Now there is an opportunity to buy a JL at a discount, and the price of the Rythmik will be much more expensive than the official one due to shipping to Serbia from the USA + taxes. So it comes out to about the same. The listening room is about 25 sq.m with two wide passages to the kitchen and dining room of the same area. The musical genre is mainly metal, but also light music with my wife. Speakers - Buchardt S400 MKII. Listening at a medium volume level, shaking the floor is not necessary, but scale, depth, weighty lows and musicality are needed. Please help me make a choice.

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harpo75
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About 5 years ago I bought a pair of F12 subs with the A370XLR2 amps. I use them with a pair of Eminent  Technology LFT-8b speakers and am very happy with them.  Hard to beat for the money for sure.  If I had the money I’d of bought a pair of Rel’s bought would have cost me almost twice as much for what I wanted that would be comparable.  Also, the nice thing on the Rythmik subs is all of the control you have.  For instance, I have a dip in my room that I like to boost around the 20 to 25 Hz area.  There is a, essentially single parametric equalizer that boost a frequency with.  I don’t use the electronic crossover that’s in the rhythmics for my main speakers.  I run the eminent technology speakers full range as I prefer that, and just bring the subwoofers in at a very low frequency and cross them over. Sounds phenomenal and really don’t even know they’re there until those low bass notes hit.  

harpo75
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Yes bdp24, I’ve looked at switching to OB several times but finances have always stopped me from moving forward on this.  A pair of triple 12” (which is what I’d want) OB which a wood kit, etc is about twice as much as I paid for the Rythmik’s.  At the time I purchased them I was still “in the business” and got a bit a discount.
I have tried running the Rythmik’s with the crossover set all the way up and disconnected the woofer in the ET’s (like someone in an OB forum suggested ) but there’s a noticeable hole so doesn’t work the same as an OB setup would.  

I have heard full OB systems and they are incredible!  The most impressive system I’ve ever heard (and I was going to CES, in the business since the early 80’s) was a full OB system with dual subs consisting of four 12” drivers and the NX Ottica speakers.  Driven by a custom made 50 wpc Nelson Pass style amp.  It was just so clean and full sounding.  Takes a lot to amaze me but I loved it!  I know what I eventually want to build for a system but will be a long while.  Will probably start with the triple OB subs first, sell my Rythmik’s and be happy for a while (until my wife forgets) then eventually get some OB full range sets. 

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