... Quite suitable for apartments with nice neighbors - I'm thrilled ...

I can highly recommend this small Canton. Certainly there are richer and more precisely the sub should not save actually, but for the price was right here just the power!
I was looking for a sub for a room just over 20 m², the also still extremely friendly neighbor - so good and simple controls - be had. I did not actually have to move out here that is!
My requirements is the small Canton justice to a large extent, he adapted supergut in my requirements.
Well, he is not the most beautiful: simple matt black and smooth halt, no real design object, such as the small Elacs. But !! meticulously crafted and solid I benefited from the fact that both openings (including bass reflex opening) go forward. A down-firing - but the most are visually appealing something - I could not take because of laminate flooring, without turn to decouple it separately.
In addition, I like the format of 85.2. He is taller than wide and thus takes up relatively little space. He plays strong and sufficiently powerful, but totally unobtrusive, not locatable!

On the back there are numerous controls and switches:
- Volume
- Crossover (I do not use the sub, the AVR divides accurate and not equal to each speaker)
- Phase matching
- Switch for room compensation / adaptation (Wide, Narrow, Normal)
- Switch for continuous On or Auto
- On / Off switch
- Low-level input (you have to buy extra cables, I use a good shielded Y-adapter cable from Oehlbach)
-. Speaker Connections "High Level Output" for example, to connect a second subwoofer

Only one power cord is included. And four small, transparent absorbers for silver Standfüsschen, if you set it up on a 'hard' ground.
The unit was delivered well and securely packaged. Unpacking, installing, connecting, calibrating ... everything goes fast and easy. Many subs, also expensive give the operation a slight but annoying humming noise, which can have various causes. My Canton not, it behaves more quietly to my delight. But is always right there when it is needed.
I have now leveled me with a volume setting between 40 and 50%, and agree to allerbestens served! He could even more, but I do not want to (... and Grandma on me either! Although it is a little hard of hearing, but punchy bass can feel it through walls and ceilings. I would avoid like them every evening in your wing chair uncontrollably through's Living jumps ...)

Conclusion: I am well served with Canton !! In many of his missions begin with me in the hallway, the cupboard doors to vibrate. Of course everyone has to create its own requirements to a sub. And in your own 4 walls you can certainly something lush .... Someone who lives in a rented apartment, do not want to spend too much money, has to operate a space about 20 m² and can simulate any major earthquake / want, I can the 85.2 create heart. Who needs more pressure should better define the Canton 105.2 ... so then drops the plaster from the walls, your neighbors get no more eye and the termination of your landlord is guaranteed !! ; O) The 105.2 you safely ahead of your lease.

[Edit] 07.06.2011: The Canton 85.2 actually requires a business phase. I'd not have believed it at first, but the sound became increasingly better, emphasized the more time into the country .... He now has been running a few months and I'm still very happy with the part! ; O)