Velodyne DD-18+ Pro Reviews

When taken in as a whole the DD18+ is at or very near the top of the heap of subwoofers I have had the pleasure to get acquainted with in all around performance. In fact, it was even the recipient of our 2011 Product of the Year Award for the Subwoofer category. The Velodyne DD18+ is a total package that offers extreme flexibility, user configurability, an eye pleasing façade, top notch, accurate sound reproduction, deep extension and plenty of output headroom for most situations and spaces. The integration of the parts and manner in which the total system performs is among the best that I have seen. This subwoofer has been optimized to the point that it simply will not emit an ugly sound no matter what you ask it to do and it still allows for a lot of output at the same time. It simply sounded great with everything. I owned a few Velodyne’s years back and have heard a few of the earlier HGS or DD models over the last decade and they have always sounded exceptional, but they sometimes fell a little bit short on output. Velodyne has made a major step forward in that regard with the new Digital Drive Plus line. In the deep bass the improvement seems to be such that a single DD+ has output corresponding to two of the previous model in the series or perhaps even a bit more. That is a huge difference. In fact the DD18+ is our first sealed subwoofer to achieve our Extreme room size rating. To wrap up, precision is the word that comes to mind to describe the DD18+. Most other subwoofers I have encountered simply do not seem to have the nth degree of total system optimization that the DD18+ does. If your budget supports it the Velodyne DD+ line is worthy of your consideration and highly recommended.

The DD18+ drops devilishly low and never ever seems to run out of power to spank you and your world to a happy, quivering pulp. Brilliant.