REL Habitat 1 Subwoofer – Black

Here we have a Habitat 1 Subwoofer and its associated Longbow Wireless Transmitter from specialists REL. It is faulty with some cosmetic blemishes particularly to the front grille – please see photographs, so being sold for spares. It will be supplied in original packaging along with manual, Wi-Fi aerial & interconnect cable.
REL Say….
Habitat1 is a brilliant new concept that takes sub bass to new levels by incorporating the room, your Habitat, into our design. It is common in design circles to speak of taking the room into account, but never has the complete system approach employed by REL been utilized so utterly to one singular purpose. Perfect, deep bass of the sort that would never expect to emanate almost invisibly from somewhere hidden within the room.
The complete absence of wires needed to move the signal flawlessly from player to Habitat1 is key to this execution. REL’s Longbow™ employs a new state of the art chip that, unlike virtually every other design, has ZERO compression. Hence the fidelity to the original event is retained perfectly and delay is minimized. Result? Crisp, clear bass in perfect time with the music or film.
Starting with a clean sheet of paper, we designed custom bass mini-engines to produce truly awe-inspiring bass in an ultra-thin envelope. We then put the wall to use, reinforcing and extending the output in harmony with your room’s acoustics. Clever.
Experience the perfect fusion of style and high performance low bass, embodied in a design intended to encourage functional invisibility. Though if you do happen to notice it, the eye will delight in the form it embraces!
Longbow permits use of the full complement of REL connectivity, including wireless transmission of BOTH High Level and .1/LFE concurrently, thereby producing the rich, full bass weight missing from conventional subwoofers. Automatic detection and pairing is an important component to the REL approach. Simply plug both Habitat1 and Longbow Wireless Transmitter in within 30 seconds of each other and they will seek each other out and auto pair. Forgot to do so in time? No issue, simply flick the pairing toggle on each unit and pairing will occur within seconds.
Ease of installation is another important criterion; we spent months engineering the mounting hardware to permit easy and accurate mounting of Habitat1 onto a variety of wall structures including masonry or brick walls, modern sheet rock and stud construction.
Specifications: Habitat1
Type: Sealed, two front-firing active woofers, one rear-firing passive radiator
Drive Unit: Two 165 mm long-throw, steel chassis
Passive Unit: 10 in., steel chassis
Lower Frequency Response: 30 Hz at -6 dB in room
Input Connectors: High Level Neutrik Speakon; Low Level single phono; .1/LFE single phono
Input Impedance: High Level: 150 k ohms; Low Level: 10 k ohms; .1/LFE: 10 k ohms
Gain Control Range: 80 dB
Power Output: 150 Watts (RMS)
Phase Switch: Yes, 0 or 180 degrees
Amplifier Type: Class D
Mains Input Voltage: 100-240 V
Fuse: 1.6 A for 230 V operation 3.16 A for 120 V operation
Power Consumption: 16.3 Watts for 120 V operation; 19 Watts for 230 V operation
Dimensions: 635 (W) x 406 (H) x 114 (D) mm
Net Weight: 23.0 kg
Longbow Wireless Transmitter
Input Connectors: High Level Neutrik Speakon; Low Level single phono; .1/LFE single phono
Input Impedance: High Level: 150k ohms; Low Level: 10k ohms; .1/LFE: 10k ohms
Wireless Output Power: 11 dB m
Wireless Effective Distance: 15.2 metres with clear line of site 9.1 metres with single stud wall between transmitter and receiver
Mains Input Voltage Adaptor: 9V DC, 5.5 mm circular connector, positive centre, included
Power Consumption: 600 mW
Dimensions: 152.4 (W) x 50.8 (H) x 165 (D) mm

For a review from Hi-Fi+ magazine please click here