Ok, first off about me so you have a frame of reference when I talk about sound quality and music. 47yrs old. I grew up listening to 70's rock, 80's rock & new wave, 90's alternative, country, club music, & pop. By the 2000's I was grown and tended to go back and listen to the stuff I grew up on. Now I'm not one for low, low, rumbling bass and trails on and makes trunks rattle and loosens bolts on your vehicle. Nothing wrong with that at all, just not my taste. I like bass that compliments the mids but bass that you can feel in the form of a punch. Take Van Halen for example. You listen to it for the riffs, for the guitar, for the lyrics, but I also like to feel when Alex Van Halen kicks the bass drum, and tom-toms. Same with the Foo Fighters. David Grohl is about the best drummer right now and he displays it in his music. I want to hear it, feel it in a song like Everlong, but without the bass guitar overpowering all the other instruments because I have 1 or 2 subwoofers that can't help it.I used to listen to these songs as loud as I could, going to Galveston beach (don't get in the water) when I was 16 to 22 riding with my buds. Now, as I go from construction site to construction site, in my 2011 Ram 1500 quad cab, for my job I hardly ever go over 50% on my volume knob in my car. Still loud, just enough for my neighbors to hear in the background when I pull up in my drive, but never enough for it to annoy them.That's where this beauty comes in! I get clean, punchy (but crisp), bass for just about everything I listen too. I can feel it too, without giving me a headache. This is great for rock, pop, blues, and even classical. Granted, the rest of your system has A LOT to do with the final sound with these genres, and you might be happy without a subwoofer if you get the right speaker/head-unit combo, cause I was, but when I added this baby....WOAH! It made such a nice difference at all volumes, but especially at the higher volumes where the rest of my speakers began to struggle on some songs.I will say this, get a head unit with at least a 5 band EQ. It'll be really nice if also has a High Pass filter to allow the sub to handle the lows and the rest of your system only have to deal with the higher mids and all the highs. It should allow you to be able to set the frequency you want the sub to handle, but if not don't worry, this sub has a knob for that.I place the sub under the rear passenger side seat in my Ram. I had to place it at an angle in order for it to fit, but at least the sub is angled toward the front. Even under the seat, no problems in hearing it. Running the cables in my truck was easy, your car/truck may differ. There were three cables I needed to run from the front. Power cable (red) from the truck battery. The remote cable (blue) from the head unit that tells the subwoofer that the stereo is on so you better turn on too. The cable for the control dial (black with 3.5mm tips) that comes with the subwoofer, it connects to a knob you install somewhere you can easily reach and goes to an input in the sub. It basically overrides the gain knob on the sub. And on the back of my headunit I had a set of RCA outputs (I supplied them) that I ran to the sub, but the sub doesn't have RCA inputs, only a harness to which you are supposed split the wires that go to your front speakers and reconnect them to the front speakers AND to the subwoofer. However, I ended up using Kickers 2-ch speaker wire-to-RCA adapter. If you do use the spearker wires that come out of your head unit then you won't need to run the remote wire (the blue one).I tried some of the other powered subs from Rockville, Pioneer, yeah they were $99 to $120, but this one was so much better. I honestly couldn't hear the difference with or without the sub with the cheaper ones.This is plenty loud. I have a 23 year old and at 50% volume he asks me to turn it down after 3 or 4 songs, so I may be almost 50, but I still like my music a little loud.If you fall within frame I painted myself in as far as musical tastes, then you WILL NOT be disappointed with this unit.