chn68b wrote: > I spent the day at the Bristol Hi-Fi show on Sunday and listened to a > REL subwoofer demo and was blown away. I've never wanted a sub for the > Hi-Fi before as I always thought the bass would be too exaggerate, but > this demo was superb. The soundstage grew as soon as the sub was > switched on.
I've had a REL Stadium sub for my main system for nearly ten years. Its great. The REL philosophy is not to do booming bass for movie effects, but to put a realistic level for real music. It can get loud, but only when the main gain is high. The REL setup that I have uses speaker taps, from the output of the main amp. They are high impedence, so they do not load down the amp. They also do not put a high pass filter in the main speaker leads, so they don't change the phase response of the main speakers. [they also do not prevent the low frequency signals that the mains can't handle from reaching the main woofers.] I don't think you could easily connect my particular REL model to active speakers. There are no speaker-level connections on most (all?) active speakers to tap into. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
