Rockville RBG15S 1600w Active Powered PA Subwoofer w/DSP + Limiter Pro/DJ, 15 inch, Black

All I can say is getting 2 of these subs have made my gigs sound SO much better. I don't know what took me so long to purchase them, I have seen other reviews of the RBG15S sub here in amazon where some people where "underwhelmed" by the sub. I have NO IDEA what they were listening to, but this sub will pull your house down, IF you know anything about subs in general and the fundamentals of gain/volume/crossover/boost. You might think, "well you have TWO subs, so of course they'll sound better and hit harder". While this IS true, I did my testing prior running only one sub (paired to a set of Rockville RPG 12's and it hit HARD. With both hooked up, EVERY and I do mean EVERY wall, window and fixture in my house were flexing and vibrating like crazy. It was so bad, even my garage doors were vibrating and squeaking, lol. Sub Construction - This is a very large and heavy sub, considering it is only a 15", weighing in at about 90lbs! I can't imagine getting the 18"s like I was initially planning The box is covered in carpet and has 2 slotted ports on the bottom front. There is also a blue LED on the front, so you can tell if the speaker is on (when in front of it, with no music playing). This light can be turned off. The box does not flex or creek and all the joints seem to be connected well. In order to move the sub around, I had to put them on my little mini trolly/dolly. The sub has 2 handles and these are also, like the sub, super solid. I never once was concerned about them coming off or anything. When I picked the subs up, likewise, I was never concerned about them flexing or falling apart. The sound - Like I've already mentioned, the sub is pretty powerful and if you know a thing or 2 about sub audio, you can get it sounding tight and fairly accurate. The sub has 2 ways for LINE IN/THRU being a combination XLR/1/4" port. The OUT is 2 XLR connections. For BEST sound I'd suggest using XLR from the Sub to your Tops, IF they are XLR. If your speakers are RCA only, you could do a cable with an XLR side and RCA on the other and run that form the sub to your tops. On the back is Level (aka Volume/Gain), a Crossover and Boost selector. I have my subs in the 11 O'Clock positions (-3) without any Boost options and the crossover at about 100hz. With this setting, the music my clients ask for [Reggae, House, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul and Jazz] sound GREAT. I did play with the Boost options (power and extended) for a few minutes, but these seemed gimmicky at best and fell off at higher levels, and to me sounded artificial. If you find the Bass to be over or underwhelming, you can cut that back or add it through your DJ Controller itself. I find myself adjusting it through the night depending on what I'm playing and at what time (Lounge, Dinner, Dancing). Again, I cannot over stress the importance of understanding Sub-Bass, Gains and Volumes and would suggest doing a little research on the net. If you don't have time for that, you can do as I did: 1) Avoid turning the sub ALL THE WAY up when testing. 2) run the tops first, then slowly turn the sub up until it fills out the bottom end, right to the point before it begins to play the same bass as the 12"'s. 3) Allow for a break-in period by playing your initial practice set at lower levels to give the speakers a chance to get going for the task. [SET UP NOTES] If you are using one sub with two separate speakers - simply run the left and right XLR out of your controller into the subs left and right Input/Thru and then run the left OUT to your left Top and the right OUT to your right Top. Nice and simple. For best sound, place the sub somewhere between the 2 speakers. If you are running 2 subs - run the left XLR cable from your Controller to the left sub Input/THRU and then run from the left OUT to your left Top. Run the right XLR cable from your Controller to the right sub Input/THRU and then run from the right OUT to your right Top. I know this seems like it shouldn't work, however, subs can work on a Mono channel, so having one signal to the sub is just fine. NOTE: if you run yours system like this, you will need to purchase On Stage SS7745 Adjustable Subwoofer Attachment or something similar so that you have one top over each sub, and then place the complete set to the left and right. All I can say is I love my subs and they sound incredible at an inside venue...

I rarely leave reviews for products especially when so many people have said enough to have me sold. Let me tell you, for the money, quality, and performance, why did I wait so long to get one? As with anything, there are always more expensive and better performing products but this sub is banger! I bought the 18 inch and probably should have considered a 12 or 15 for my room because its loud! But I'll give you my reasons why I bought it. 1. Price - Most active subwoofers are expensive and some may agree to go with a passive and get an amp but thats more than this sub alone aready and it does it all for cheaper. 2. Features - Ahh yes, we all like features. I love my deep dubstep, trap, and other low hitting songs and this goes as low as 29Hz and it's adjustable! It as wheels, made it cake to roll to my room along with handles on 3 different sides. And has a pole extension for your PA's 3. Quality - Honestly, I would have paid more if there wasn't any better out there. The box and metal grate is solid. The carpet is thick. The wheels are smooth, not wobbly as what I would expect a "cheap" sub to be but man this thing is built nicely! How I connected? I have a pre-amp mixer and used just 1 XLR male to 1/4 inch and send it to my MONO out and I was good to go. Yes, it will take RCA's and any adaptive connection with it. So I bought it this because of the reasons above and I have needed bass for a loooong time but I've never been able to justify the price for some of the high end brands. I came across this one out of curiosity and a lot of the youtube videos, threads, etc. wasn't able to show me how well it performed for the price. Well I will tell you now, you can do all the research you want, but you will be surprise how much more this will give you than you would expect. For a house, it's a little much. For a mansion, still loud. Outdoor pool party, you will feel it in the water. This thing hits, quality lows, and I'm sure after break-in, I am in for a treat. From all if the reviews claiming it lasted more than 4 years with a good beating?! I would have enough money saved for bass for the whole neighborhood! If youre on a budget, and you need bass like youre at a EDM show in your room, this is it. I should probably turn it down, hard to write a review with the keyboard shaking.

A little underwhelmed in relation to the numbers they give in spec, but this is a very pleasant sounding cabinet, and will round out your sound nicely. I bought this specifically for a tiny dance floor at an Irish pub for DJ dancing, about 8 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and I think it will work just fine paired with a 200watt 10" full range, if I push both to their safe limits. Will update if my plan fails miserably or if it works better than expected. Response is best at mid-bass ~80Hz (it really sings), but isn't too impressive at the sub range, which is to be expected from a cabinet this size. All in all, I'm not blown away, but the price point is great for the product, and the tininess of the cabinet is a huge plus for me. I bought this cabinet instead of the bigger versions for logistical reasons. I can keep it on my passenger seat and cover it up really discretely if I need to. It takes up about the same volume of space as one of my 10" top cabs actually, so hauling it anywhere, or even up a flight of stairs, is not an issue at all. I have my 18" sub when I really need the thump. The box is ruggedly built from what I can tell, we'll see how long the back panel (amp, connections and knobs) lasts, as it's probably the least rugged part. It's probably best for traveling jazz bands, or coffee shop open mic type situations when you don't have to be loud but traveling small and light is important. Home theater could be another application, but could work for very small dance floors or living room dance parties. Two of these and a pair of 10" tops could probably support a dance floor of 80 people at a comfortable volume in a medium sized ball room, I imagine, but you might as well use an 18" if you're going to haul a pair of these, and get better low end. Hope that helps! UPDATE: I took it out on its first dance floor, and I drove it through a compressor. It handled the bass notes nicely, but the kick drums were flicking the clip light. It definitely sounded nice and rounded, but I'm going to have to say that there is quite not enough headroom to make it work on a dance floor on the long run. I was running it a little hotter than I was comfortable with, and still, it was arguably not enough to inspire booty shaking. Checkout the dancefloor for an idea of how big it was (these are people who refuse to leave when the lights came on :) Also, I didn't read the specs on its bigger brother (the 12") correctly, and didn't realize that the 12" is only a few inches bigger on each dimension. I was initially reading the shipping box dimensions, which is the reason I didn't go for that one :(. I slightly regret buying this since returning it would cost me about $50. I take full responsibility for my disappointment. I'm not changing my rating as it's still a great buy at $170, just get a bigger sub if you're rocking a dance floor.

Ok let me tell you that The RGB15S Active Subwoofer is an amazing little package. I ordered two of these to pair with my RPG12 Active speakers for use at an outdoor festival. The Subwoofers are built very well, the carpeting of the cabinets seemed a little lacking in QA/QC but none the less was effective and clean. The input section is very user friendly and marked in such a way that it’s nearly impossible to not connect these properly. The sound quality is also impressive, I have seen various videos on Youtube that show muffled or distorted subwoofers I am assuming this is because the RGB15S units were not set up property or had signal going to them that was distorted. The playback from the sub at my events was tight and accurate. Much better than I was expecting. On a scale of 1 – 10 I would give the RGB152 an 8-8.5 rating. Definitely enough quality sound and volume for any mobile DJ indoor or outdoor venue. The RGB15S subwoofer has an onboard DPS that is pretty user friendly. Pick a disposition and slide the selector switch to the setting and you’re in business. There is also a onboard crossover with 3 crossover points, again very easy to use, pick your desired Xover point and slide the switch. I have seen many user videos & reviews of these subs that really do not do them justice. The key to setting these subwoofers (or any speaker for that matter) up correctly is having your signal source or controller set up property. Poor signal source = Poor sound. Start with the DSP set to OFF and the Xover point set to 80hz. turn the gain pot on the RGB15S to “zero” (all the way to the left) Assuming your Controller is set up and “zeroed to no more than +3db” (your digital meters are not constantly in the red, only bouncing in the orange and peaking in the red from time to time) connect your sub to the controller and play a track with reasonable bass and at full program volume. (NOTE: YOUR TOP SPEAKERS ARE OFF AT THIS POINT NO SOUND AT ALL FROM THEM). Once music is playing, slowly increase the gain (turn to the right) on your RGB15S until you hear sound coming from your sub. Continue to increase the Gain pot until you begin to hear distortion and see the clip light flash vigorously, slowly turn the gain pot back to the left until the CLIP light only quickly FLASHES on bass notes. Then Turn it a tiny bit to the left more. This should give you a good “live play back” setting on the sub. At this point connect your TOP speakers and adjust their volume accordingly. If the low end sound is not quite right, at this point you can adjust the Xover frequency on the sub, I would recommend lowering the volume when doing this. I have found that when using the RPG12 powered system (input gain set to 5 and unit volume set to 6), the 100hz setting blends the best for most music types. You can also adjust the DSP if you are looking to boost the bottom end but I have found that the DSP seems to distort the sound coming from the subwoofer and 99.9% of the time leave that set to off. I have used TWO RPG12 tops and TWO RBG15S bottoms at outdoor events in 90* Full sun conditions and ran them nonstop at peak volume for over 5 hours with no problems. The amp on the RGB15S was not even hot when the event was over. The NON POWERED pass though outputs provide for easy connection to my RPG12 tops. For the price point I am extremely impressed with the RGB15S subwoofer. The only thing I would like to see on these for the future are “recessed wheels” so you can tip and roll the subs when needed. out of the box I did have one RGB15S arrive DOA. However the Team at Rockville was quick to help resolve my issues. The initially sent me a replacement amp, when that did not fix the issue, they issued a replacement RGB15S for me and set up an RMA and return shipping label for the DOA unit. The whole return/swap took about 5 days. In closing, the RGB15S is a lot of bang for your buck. When set up properly you’ll get good sound quality with tons of volume. On board Xovers and DSP settings add value to the package. Priced at approximately $250each with free shipping (amazon or rockville site) you really cant go wrong.

Finally tested the two 10” powered subs I received a couple days ago. I used XLR to 1/4 daisy chained ran in series to the second main speaker input on my Mackie 808S. I have had the Mackie head unit for about 18 years now and have taken really good care of it needless to say it’s still a hammer and still capable of pushing the 1600 watts with no problems at all. Don’t waste your time lining in to any type of auxiliary output go straight into the main or monitor speaker input. I usually run my mains and monitors in series so I have two extra speaker inputs that are available which I use the additional main to line the two 10” subs into. I mostly listen and play reggae, country, Hawaiian music so there’s a fair amount of bass in those genres. Tested these out with some Maoli music and let me tell you that these 10’s all though they be small they are mighty. Set the phase to normal dropped the low frequency knob down to 40 and could only manage to turn the volume knob about quarter way. My son and I were testing these out in the garage and at that volume my entire house was shaking. Good deep solid bass coming from both units along with one 12” JBL monitor that’s the same age as the Mackie board which still cranks too and is still in great condition. Looking forward to using these outdoors at gigs they will definitely add some nice lows to the already great sounding set up I have. I can only imagine the power and bass that the 12, 15 and 18 inch subs from this line can put out. Great purchase would’ve purchased 15” if they were available on Prime unfortunately not to Hawaii so I’ll settle for the 10’s which are just fine by me! Ok so I’ve had these for about 2 years now and I made some slight modifications to the two units I originally purchased. I ended buying 2 10” Rockville car audio subs with 160 oz magnets 1000 rms max 3500 watts on the cheap and replaced the original speakers that came with the unit. The little cabinet must weigh about 80 lbs now and the sound, the sound, it was already a beast of a little unit but I’ve turned them into absolute freaking monsters. The bass can get super deep super low and super clean turned up to about 3 o’clock a little past unity. They sound almost as good as 15’s and I’d honestly say give 12” subs a run for the money or might even be better. I’ve used these to run live sound for reggae bands and the musicians always can’t believe the sound coming from the two little subs. Only drawback is they get a little hot but I run vernado fans on the back of the h it and that helps a lot. All in all the compactness of the unit with the modifications, Unbelievable still stoked with the purchase.

Initially I wanted a big dj speaker in my house, just like the Caribbean dj sets. This did not rock the house or bass sound like the clubs. Bass is like an old guitar speaker. I have it hooked to a 7.1 Denon and it sounds OK but not great. NOW, Dec 2025, after 1yr, it has Shorted Out n Doesn't play! Waste of money!

Love the sound and connection options! It's perfect for our purposes and adds the bass that my Kustom PA-50 just can't produce (thats an awesome unit though, 3-channels each w/ EQ, nothing else like it for the $$). This Rockville 10" sub is just what the audio doctor ordered to fill out our sound. We're a sax duo playing mostly jazz. We play smaller venues and this is the perfect size and the bass quality is amazing IMHO! I love how it sounds in our rehearsal space which is a little smaller than most of the places we play frequently. This unit will see it's first live performance duty this Friday and Sunday. If it sounds as good then as now, I'm an ecstatic, satisfied customer. Cannot beat it for the $$ I paid. Amazon stated it was used but it looks brand spanking new, arrived in the original carton and I can find no issues with the sound or function. Super buy if you need, or are looking for very reasonably priced, quality look, feel, and rich bass sound, then this little bass box is the ticket!

I should have dug a little deeper before purchasing this Rockville subwoofer. I am a mobile DJ and I needed a subwoofer to enhance my system for weddings, dance parties, etc. I don't often play huge rooms so I went for the ten inch model, thinking it would be enough kick while also being easy to transport. At first it was okay. Not stellar, but it got the job done. It didn't rattle, didn't overheat. The LPF wasn't the best - it was finicky and not as precise as I would like. This may have been a sign. After eight months of use - mostly at home with a few gigs thrown in - one day it just stops putting out bass. I started troubleshooting it, attempting to figure out where the problem was. After many hours, I kinda got it to work again: I had to send it a RIDICULOUSLY hot signal to "wake it up", at which point it would start working and be wildly overdriven and distorted. I could then back it down to normal volume levels, but this kludge only worked for a few days, after which it would only function with the really hot signal at distorted volume levels. I disassembled the amplifier from the cabinet to examine the electronics, looking for bad solder joints, loose wires or Molex connectors, burst capacitors, etc. Unlike many of the reviews here, the build quality seemed fine. Everything was well soldered, components were held in place with hot glue, and the overall design of the amp was actually pretty good for the price. However, the potentiometers used for the LPF and volume control were, in a word, crap. The rest of the electronic components seemed to be of reasonable quality; why skimp here? It makes no sense. In any case, my hypothesis is that the problem with needing a really hot signal is directly related to the pots. In short, by trying to save maybe fifty cents a unit, Rockville turned an otherwise good budget/entry level subwoofer into a paperweight. There are other subs out there in the same price range of higher quality that will serve you better.