Buy TIC CORPORATION TFS50-CN 250-Watt Terra-Forms Outdoor Rock pro-Stone Speaker (Canyon)TIC CORPORATION TFS50-CN 250-Watt Terra-Forms Outdoor Rock pro-Stone Speaker (Canyon) Product Description:
- 250W Max, 125W Continuous
- 200W, 8-inch Subwoofer Driver
- 8-Inch Injection-Molded Woofer With Butyl
- Rubber Surround
- 8 Ohm and 70V Switchable
Product Description
Terra-forms speaker, 150 watts.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent sound, great appearance, top value
By R. Pick
Bought this for use near our new pool, to flesh out the bass for our outdoor sound system. It adds substantial and great sounding bass, complementing our two tweeter/mid-range speakers. Using a very basic outdoor amp with tiny wattage per channel, this speaker delivers great bass with an appropriate fixed crossover setting. The look of the rock finish is excellent and it has genuinely fooled a couple of people already. It is solidly constructed, weighty enough and provides 1 meter leads for input and passthrough wiring. Wire appears to be 14AWG. I'd prefer 12AWG, but 14 is entirely appropriate for the purpose.I have this subwoofer wired via 12AWG direct burial cable, running about 60 feet from the amp. The midrange/tweeter speakers tie off of the subwoofer, each about 30 feet distant from the subwoofer. The combination is excellent and precisely as advertised. Admittedly, compared to my high-end indoor 800 watt powered subwoofer in a dedicated theater, the sound from the Terra-form subwoofer is a bit muddy. But this is an artificial comparison given the relative placement and the degree of acoustic tuning and dollar investment.Excellent value, design, build and aesthetic, exactly as advertised.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good all-around sub
By Russ S.
I bought this to fill in the bottom end on my pool zone and it does the job well. It's not an earthquake-style sub by any means, rather it rounds out the low end in a sonically transparent way that makes a huge difference in sound. Even my wife and her friend, who never notice this kind of stuff, both remarked how much better the system sounds. Visually it's a very handsome rock. Recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Could have been better
By M. Bohannan
This speaker looks Nice, the cabinet(?)is well built and sealed, feels solid and fairly heavy especially considering it's very reasonable price, but has disappointing sound and low volume in comparison to even a low wattage powered sub. I purchased this subwoofer for an outdoor pergola I just built. I was going to use it in conjunction with a pair of outdoor Sonance speakers mounted under the eaves of the pergola. After doing as much research and reading as many reviews as I could on all outdoor rock speakers, I chose the TIC. In retrospect, do whatever you can to listen first before you buy! But this is not easy for outdoor rock speakers. There aren't very many shops that have them on display to audition.First off, the speaker looks very good for an imitation rock. No big grille holes or slots that many others have that shouts "Fake Rock". It has an 8" driver mounted facing up with an omni-directional grille pattern and a built in passive 2.1 crossover network to make for easy integration with 2 satellite speakers. I had hoped I would be happy with this as a simple solution to make a good sounding patio system. Unfortunately, the sub volume is far low and the bass isn't well defined, not as "muddy" as some cheap subs are, but not very articulate when compared to even an inexpensive powered subwoofer like you would use for a Home Theater system. The Sonance speakers I am pairing this up with arent overly efficient (88db), a fairly average rating, so I had hoped for better integration. The main complaint is the sub volume is much too low to be effective in this 2.1 passive configuration. I've run this sub almost daily for a month now and it should be broken in well enough to see any improvements that come as the speaker settles in. These results were duplicated when I tried a few different pairs of bookshelf speakers I have on hand too. The sub volume is simply too low.In fairness, the sub may pair up better with TIC's satellite rock speakers, as originally intended. My next step to salvage the sub (and the rock) in this system is to remove the sealer from the bottom and bypass the crossover. I purchased a 100 watt Dayton Plate amp to run the 2.1 system with the sub powered, instead of running the sub passive. Passive 2.1, or sub/sat systems were the rage in the early days of surround sound, but have largely fallen out of favor. Perhaps this is why, or maybe the TFS50's crossover could have been better designed to play the satellite speakers at lower volumes to bring out more bottom end of the music spectrum in a more convincing fashion.
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