Here is comments by Michael Fremer from the HT magazine review.
Aerial Acoustics LR5, CC5, LR3, SW12 surround speaker system | Home Theater
It is the paragraph right before
Set up.. He says, "... I'll just say that I bought a SW12 back then, and I've yet to hear a better sub musically or explosively."
Of course this was written in 2004 but it is still high praise for a great sounding sub!