REL Acoustics T/5x Powered Subwoofer Overview

Hi, John Hunter with REL here. I&our head designer, and we&here to introduce you to the T/5x. This is part of our new T/x range. This is baby bear. This is the entry-level into TX. Don&count it out just because it&a cute, diminutive little piece. It&really potent. I&explain why. What we&got is a high current, 125 watt amplifier. All Watts are not created the same. 0:30 This is as though you were buying a 125 watt professional grade monoblock amp. Big power supplies, big transistors, lots of regulation, all the stuff nobody else wants to do. We have a down firing eight inch driver in the T/5x, and we do the down firing because a few things. First of all, it picks up instantly about three decibels, about 20% more output simply by having the floor. It also provides a really good mechanism for forcing sound out throughout difficult rooms. So when you have a floor coupled buffer, it just allows the sound to sort of permeate effortlessly throughout the whole space works great. 1:00 The T/5x is an absolutely wonderful piece. It pairs with speakers between $1,000 to $3,000 in the U S maybe £800 to £2,500 in the UK. And we&upgraded every aspect of it compared with the T/i going forward. The T/5x uses a very high powered eight inch drive. As I mentioned before it&down firing. The T/x drivers were completely redesigned from the outgoing drivers. What we had to do was create something that was much more of a sports car suspension. 1:30 It&much stiffer. The surround is completely...