my verdict: the strata is great for small to mid-size systems and rooms, with large systems the scale of the sound stage increases and so probably should the sub system. Can't find your Rel product? Strata DK 14,40i,424 Rel 3.1,4.1 General & Feature Desc Strata DK 14,40i,424 Rel 3.1,4.1 System Record Sheets Strata DK 14,40i,424 Rel. 25; G1 MKII; Serie S. Carbon Special ; 212/SX All available for free download. I am forever thankful to have such a great friends like Joseph and Randee! Great features, such as an excellent high-levelinput. This sent me scuttling for the SPL Meter. Mind you, it is capable of committing serious seismic havoc, particularly those urban folks domiciled in vitreous structure of patented fragility ! Or even Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" album (check out the speed). Depth, detail, transparency, superb effect on imaging... well kindly ready my review for I may run out of adjectives to phraise this sub, Best suited for speakers with usable bass down to 50Hz (since this sub is very powerful), "Audiophiles, musicians and music lovers… Lend me your ears (or eyes), hear me for my cause! The best way is to ask someone else to rotate the frequency knobs while you are seated at your listening chair and directing everything from there (whether by ear or by an SPL meter, or both) until you hear/get the best integration. REL Storm III 150 Watt Mosfet Sub Bass Speaker System Powered Subwoofer. I split the signal from my preamp and hooked it to the subwoofers input and that's it because I don't want to use the sub's crossover running through my amp which will for sure degrade the sound. 3 in C Minor" and the REL literally shook the house, I had reservations that our landlord/ landlady might throw us out of the apartment! I was immediately impressed with theapparent build quality and looked forward to hearing it my system. No scratches or other blemishes in the beautiful cherry finish. After numerous e-mail exchanges with Jack G (thanks again for theinput and the encouragement to keep experimenting, Jack!) While it offersother connection options, the speaker level input enables the REL to receive the full, carried forward, character of the entire system.I thought this to be a bit of marketing hype when I originally encountered the concept. The III has just a bit tighter bass. Twenty one tracks (65 mns.) I think the best compliment one can pay asubwoofer is to not know it is there. Remembering what Richard E. Lord and his disciples "preach" in the REL website, I became curious, how about for those music materials with not much bass content? Great to add weight and atmosphere to music. with heavy bass materials will urge you worship the REL Strata II. This gave the smoothest overall response.Smooth, but far from flat.My initial impressions:• punchier and tighter than REL? The REL heightened the holographic presence of the guitarists, and you get that obvious presence of "air" in the midst of a reverberant room as the guitar strings are individually plucked. A Strata III – a single 10” long-throw, downward firing unit utilising REL’s ABC filtering circuitry and 100W DC-coupled MOSFET amplifier, which was a step up from previous versions in speed and ultimate control – and a Storm – I can’t remember which model it was but I think was a 10” driver, 100W and weighed around 30kgs or so. The "upgrade bug" had never managed to sting me as far as subwoofers are concerned. It also boasts a “Q” very close that of whatone gets with the acquisition of a pair of Dunlavys. At REL we make powered subwoofer speakers for stereo & home theater systems. Tsunami TS200. REL Strata. You'll never know there's a sub around, just excellent bass filling the room. "Pardon me for my intrusion, but I just can't help sharing with you this turning point in my life. I then asked him to handcarry the REL on his way here. • There was something about the Titan’s character which I could not come to grips with. $565.00 + $125.00 shipping Even as Stirling Trayle (from the distributor,Sumiko) talked me through it, and it seemed to make sense, my natural cynicism remained. For information on their recordings you can contact:Monastére de Keur Moussa; P.O. That would be rather sad, wouldn't it? When run out of phase with the mains, the output at lowest frequenciesdropped by 8dB; in the 50 -90 Hz range, I would find peaks of 2 - 10 (yes 10) dB when I ran the sub with the phase reversed.• Moving the sub from one corner (behind the mains) to the other corner boosted the 25-60 Hz realm by 2 -3 dB. REL Strata III Active Subwoofer Specifications: SYSTEM TYPE: Closed-box loaded cabinet with ABC® semi-tone variable bass filter. And looking back, I ask myself: How could I have lived all this years not having a REL in my audio system? Halleluiah, a savvy display of powerful, non-directional and graceful bass filled the room! So, don't say I didn't warn you!WisdomBut then again, power/loudness is not the most important thing in subwoofery nowadays, I must admit. This is a special product to us, part of the growing REL Reference family of products along with the No. All Rights Reserved. I was a bit disappointed about the difficulty of settinggain and crossover. the enormous precision and speed suddenly turned the strata into a slug and it became irritatingly slow trying to catch up, lacking speed and dragging behind the forwardness and sheer speed of the rk's 175 fantastic staging, resulting in muddled and irritably blurred sound picture. Most musical sub I have heard. While the Titan and the REL showed promise for further integration, the others did not (your mileagein your system may vary). | audioreview.com. Thanks to REL for being the latest courier of God's blessing!I say, AMEN.Micob TacastacasEmail: mtacastacas1@mmm.com or micobtacastacas@yahoo.com================================================P.S.Hats off to these friends, who either advised or helped me to go REL:Joseph Ramon (owned a Strata or shall we say "Strata 1")Daniel Long (reviewer of REL Stentor, www.hometheaterhifi.com) Hansen D. (REL-maniac, as much as a Sonus Faber-maniac)Moises Lua (a.k.a. REL Set-Up Made Simple RELs are not traditional subwoofers, but true sub-bass systems. The Strata III was much more musical as well and seemed to have more transparent bass that was in the room rather than hard hitting bass that sounded like a movie soundtrack. photographyreview.com Based on my mains, my initial guesstimations would have suggested 57, 53or 47 Hertz.• For those of you who MUST know the specifics, here’s an abbreviated chart of the most relevant frequency facts (sorry if theformatting does not translate well):Speakers With REL With REL With REL With REL Alone crossed crossed crossed crossedat 39 at 43 at 36 at 3320 -16 -6 -7 -2 -2 25 -10 -2 -2 +2 flat 31 -2 -2 -1 +4 flat40 -7 -1 flat +4 flat50 -2 flat +2 +2 flat63 +3 flat +4 +2 flat80 +3 flat +2 -6 -1100 -4 -4 -2 -3 -2Given that, prior to the insertion of the REL, the speakers were rolling off from -2 at 50 to -7 at 43, the bump from 60-80 (whenrun sans sub) offered a welcome degree of weight to the presentation. My patience—which was already running short after two weeks of lugging all these heavy suckersaround—may have been a factor that came into play here, as well. Matches well with any speaker and room ! Or, if it is a concert DVD playback of say, James Taylor ("Live at the Beacon Theater"), you'd be transported to front row seats of the Beacon theater itself, or even on the stage! Moving on to fine tune the set-up, I was able to flatten out the responsefrom 20 to 160 Hz quite nicely. Original Box for safe transport (65lbs) and original manual. Mismatch surely produces comic outcome, you see. ... Are you nuts?! Login; ... Hifi-Manuals uses Cookies exclusively to gather anonymous data that help us improve the website. I used the speaker level inputs. Free shipping for many products! the comments i have relate to system building: the strata worked very well with my small size high end system with the single driver rehdeko rk115 with 96db/wm. I auditioned this sub with the ProAc Response 1SC's and loved it (see my 11/9/98 comments under the ProAc link). I spun a favorite CD among audiophiles here, Jacintha's "Here's to Ben" (JVC xrcd2 FIM 020). Page 7: Memory Functions We will, at our sole option, repair or replace any defective parts free of charge. Works with 16" laptops & under. This CD has been one of my favorites lately. The Strata II delivers that ultra quick thud you expect to hear from a kick drum during live action or recording. It's presentation of bass guitar sound has that accurate textural detail to delineate the peculiar sonic characteristics of a Fender bass guitar from a Yamaha, or Ibanez, or Washburn, etc. The seemingly weak presentation made me conclude that it was likewise a weak subwoofer. At that time, my Velodyne subwoofer was still new so you can just conjecture my loyalty and fondness of it. I tried the 85 Hz filter first.All other things aside, even at low volumes, it was difficult to not be distracted by the obvious localization of the sub. Andthey suffer from the problem of all subs - positioning and mating. Item: REL Strata II subwoofer. 25 that commemorates our 25th year of producing the finest Sub-Bass Systems extant. For movies/video, I would set the crossover point at 67 Hz, and gain at 12 o' Clock. Track #3 "Danny Boy", opens up with her seductive voice solo (I repeat, no musical instruments in stride here, okay?). Such a compliment came a couple of weeks ago. Make no mistake: on its own, the MX1 already sounds like a bonafide floorstander. I’ll get over it.• The reality is that the speaker-level inputs performed just as promised, providing a much more synergistic connection than theline-level option.• I quickly eliminated crossing over at 57, 53 and, with a bit more experimentation, 47 Hz as possible cross-over settings.• Some of my peers questioned my initial cross-over choices of 43 and 39, thinking it was much too low.