It's rated at 110W on the back of the receiver. It sounds good. It makes an attempt to reproduce all of the bass passages within a track. It's definately one of the better boxes I own. It's no match for my panasonic DT680 which owns it hands down, both in bass, power and overall fidelity. Here is the order of bass/overall sound with the bbx's I own. (I'm not including the Panasonic DT-75 because I havn'had a chance to test it. I need to buy a voltage converter.)

1. Panasonic RX-DT680 (incredibly strong bass /high-power/hi-fidelity)
2. Jvc PC-55 (very heavy, very loud, bright sound, better at bass than most other bbx's, but it has to be cranked loud to get to it)
3. Sony CFD-770 (loud, very bright sound, bass thumps once it's cranked but dosen't go all that low
4. sONY CFD-758 (decent bass when cranked, dosen't get deep, highs are lacking)

Hi, Panabox,
What I think your'e saying is that the JVC CONSUMES 110 watts. But even if that were a higher wattage consumption than another unit, there's no relation between that and the concept of how the bass response measures up. An amp may have a stronger signal at a higher frequency where the resistance is higher but the wattage can overcome it. Low frequency sounds require higher amperage but have a lower resistance. Therefore, the woofer needs to have really flexible foam surrounds so that it can take advantage of whatever wattage is available at the output connection. The efficiency of a low frequency driver can sometimes make a bigger difference than a few watts more or less and truth be told, 20 watts per channel is way more than even the costliest b/boxs can give you. Open up your piece, use a low suction vaccuum on the front of the drivers to ensure the driver motion is unhampered by dust and debris & make sure you set your tone controls up on treble and bass to make the midranges sound less loud, reverse the process to make the voices stand out, but never try to challenge the efficiency of the speakers by "cranking it up" as distorted sound can be damaging to some drivers. We know that a lot of peep (especially the younger ones who don't really know the value of "fidelity" sound reproduction) can consider blowing speakers as fun, but it's not what we are about, if you know what I mean. At any rate, good luck with your new acquisition, comrade.

The woofers on the PC-55 don't have very flexible surrounds. This is seen across many of their component boxes from the early to mid 80's. I wonder how the speakers from a PC-5 would sound hooked up to a PC-55.

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Originally posted by Panasonic Fan:
The woofers on the PC-55 don't have very flexible surrounds. This is seen across many of their component boxes from the early to mid 80's. I wonder how the speakers from a PC-5 would sound hooked up to a PC-55.

I'm not so sure, the speakers have a lot of motion when they're pushing out the bass. Don't get me wrong, this jvc pc55 is a nice unit. If I didn't know anything about the Rx DT680 it would probably be the best i've heard, second to the Kaboom. But becaue I also own an Rx-DT680, I can safely say that the Panasonic owns it.