User Manual

9
Wireless Freedom with Zero Compression: Longbow™
Once our team achieved the high standards for performance our customers expect of all REL subwoofers,
we turned our aenon to connecvity methods. In addion to our comprehensive array of hard-wired
inputs, 212/SE benets from the nest sounding, most natural wireless system available at this me.
In order to achieve high quality wireless, the REL team found a new chipset remarkable for its speed and
lack of delay. Building on this foundaon our engineering team took to the task of creang Longbow™,
REL’s latest delivery method. Longbow™’s wireless system uses a proprietary security codec that ensures
exceponal protecon of the signal, while using zero digital compression—the bane of convenonal
wireless systems. This results in a dynamic, ultra wide-bandwidth sound with almost zero delay. Praccally
speaking, 212/SE equipped with Longbow™ can be connected to very high end hard-wired systems with
none of the delay issues that plague garden variety wireless systems. Addionally, the REL team was able
to maintain both HIGH LEVEL and .1/LFE simultaneous connecvity of REL Reference Theatre .Theatre
Reference produces a FAR richer, fuller and beer integrated theater sound than convenonal .1-only
based systems. And now, customers can have all this wirelessly if they so choose. Yet another breakthrough
for REL!
All 212/SE models include REL Longbow™ receiver technology built into the amplier. Wireless transmission
requires the purchase of a separate Longbow™ transmier. For details on how to acvate this wireless
connecvity, please see the REL Longbow™ transmier manual.
212/SE, A More Complete Approach:
Many or most loudspeakers emphasize the mid-bass. This is the range from 50 to 90 Hz. We at REL believe
this is an incomplete approach and that loudspeakers need to be augmented in the lowest frequencies in
order to reestablish the natural balance of sound we experience eortlessly in real life.
All of our designs are true Sub-Bass Systems, meaning they are designed to reproduce very low frequencies
(useful output in the 20 Hz – 50 Hz region) that are felt as well as heard. This is because we believe that
music is full-range, as are sound eects on movies, and we intend for our products to reproduce all of these
sounds, not just a narrow band.