New Upgraded Model is Twice as Loud as Its Predecessor
The REL HT/1003 MKII is the perfect subwoofer if you don’t have the space for REL's larger models or don’t require the extra output. It’s that simple. More compact and just as beautiful as its larger siblings, it delivers identical build quality.
An all-new 300W Class D amplifier offers greater headroom and powers a new CarbonGlas™ 10” driver. This combination delivers devastating output, playing TWICE as loud as the original. At this price, this performance is unheard of. The icing on the cake is that, like all the new Serie HT subs, it responds beautifully when playing music, and HT-Air delivers state of the art (optional) wireless.
A Full Suite of Performance Upgrades
Perhaps the most dramatic update in the entire REL Serie HT line-up is delivered by the remarkable HT/1003 MKII. In home theater, nothing impresses like raw output, even if you don’t use all of it. HT/1003 MKII’s increase in usable headroom confers an ease to the sound that lesser designs can’t compete with. Here REL achieves a full 10 dB higher output (that’s twice as loud) over its predecessor.
As with its larger brothers, the HT/1003 MKII receives the full suite of MKII upgrades. First, a higher secondary filter allows energy to extend further up the sonic spectrum means explosions are more savage than ever. Next, an all-analogue PerfectFilter™ lifts and extends the deepest bass. Additionally, an analog subsonic filter filters out the signals that can lead to damage below 20Hz.
All this is packaged in the same sexy, serious look that blends perfectly with our Serie T/x and S for use in HT-3D systems. Also, improvements to driver, amplifier, and filters means this latest version is now a seriously musical sub.
Designer Exterior
The sexy new cabinetry has textures, proportions, and finishing touches previously unseen in the price range. Lower, sleeker cabinetry borrows proportions drawn from REL's new Reference models. Over the years, the compapny's experiments have established that this results in a faster, deeper presentation of bass, all while looking smashing.
Your eye is immediately drawn to the top panel, whose entire surface finished in five coats of hand-polished piano black lacquer. A discreet REL logo floats within the top layer of lacquer. The body of the cabinet is clad in horizontally streaked, line-grained composite. The entire affair looks expensive, bespoke, and tastefully restrained.
Beefed Up Driver Technology
The HT/1003 MKII's driver is a 10" CarbonGlas™ construction to keep its overall size reasonable in its role as the powerhouse for slightly more modest spaces. Every component was beefed up, improved in ways both large and small to deliver the greatest performance possible.
Lightweight, stiff, and quiet, the combination of glass fiber primary cones with true carbon fiber centre caps results in a cost-effective yet pistonic cone. Larger, more powerful magnets produce more energy. Upgraded suspension designs control the HT/1003 MKII's output all the way out to the limits of both the amplifier and the driver. The result is prodigious output for this price point while remaining fast and liquid, as do all RELs.
Amplified Excellence
Amplifiers do the heavy lifting in a home theater subwoofer. REL turned to a true tier one amp supplier to build this latest design, and they did not disappoint. They created thicker boards, and upgraded power supplies—all the stuff that, while not sexy, results in a brutally powerful 300W amp (did you know all RELs are specified as RMS Continuous, just like a big, expensive 300 W monoblock amp?) with remarkable longevity. It generates truly awe-inspiring sound. While its theater applications get all the headlines, its big secret is that it sounds sublime in musical applications. Big and robust-sounding, the HT/1003 MKII is sure to become an instant classic.
PerfectFilters™ – Where it All Starts
REL input filters are renowned throughout the audio world. They bring together ultra-fast crossovers, elevation filters that extend the flatness of deep bass, and explosive-sounding integrated limiters.
This compact series of analog circuits is REL's secret recipe in both music and film sound. Refined in this second generation, the secondary filters are much higher in frequency. They make the rarefaction of air in the sound of an explosion to feel that much more realistic. Also, REL's latest circuit includes an all-analog subsonic filter that begins as low as 12 Hz to minimize the effects of infra-noise from soundtracks that extends well below the resonance point of the driver. The result is incredible delivered power with the ability to play all the way to the driver's limit without distortion.
Zero Compression Wireless Compatible
There is wireless and there is REL wireless. REL is well-known for having one of the finest wireless purpose-built audio systems in the world.
Wired for sound used to entail long runs of cable strewn across the floor. With REL's optional HT-Air™, great sound has become "un-wired." Wire has been replaced by a tiny transmitter and matching receiver that sends an incredibly fast 5.8Ghz wireless signal up to 60 feet with no digital compression. This affordable circuit includes the same LSIC chip that powers REL's state-of-the-art AirShip II, minus the expensive analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog (DAC) convertors. The HT-Air is perfect for the .1/LFE signals using RCA connectors that are HT/1205 MKII's primary mission.
