REL was founded in 1990 in Bridge End, Wales, UK by Richard E Lord and for the last 30 plus years REL has been developing better and better subwoofers designed to bring the ultimate bass response to your stereo or home theatre system, regardless of budget.
But lots of companies make subwoofers, so what makes REL special? Well for starters, they ONLY make subwoofers, whereas almost every other company make a range of products, including subwoofers. You can guess which company pays subwoofer development the most attention. Also most REL subwoofers are designed for music systems and have two very unique features. The first is the High Level Input which brings the signal in from the amplifier’s speaker outputs so the signal your subwoofer is seeing is the same as the one your speakers are seeing. This means the subwoofer has a much better chance of sounding like an extension of your speakers.
The second unique feature is the lightning fast filters which REL have developed which allow REL subwoofers to be as quick as your speakers. To illustrate, a typical loudspeaker has a response time of 4ms (milliseconds), whereas most subwoofers have a response time between 37ms & 80ms. No wonder most subwoofers sound as slow as a wet week. By contrast the response times of a REL Subwoofer vary between 9ms for the Serie T, 7ms for the Serie S and a loudspeaker-equalling 4ms for the Reference series. On top of that, REL have some of the lightest most rigid cones found on any sub and some of the most powerful amplifiers, all housed in uniquely braced cabinets that ensure no cabinet resonances of any kind and no turbulence or noise inside the cabinet. Last, but certainly not least, REL subwoofers are some of the most harmoniously designed and downright good looking subwoofers on the planet, ensuring it’s not just the bass response that brings a smile to your face.
“The subwoofer’s task is to deliver musical fundamentals below the reach of ordinary loudspeakers.”

“REL Subwoofers at House of Music"
Do one thing, and do it perfectly—that’s the motto of REL, a Welsh manufacturer of subwoofers, and pretty much just subwoofers. Lest subwoofers fail to elicit excitement for you, remember these beauties aren’t just subwoofers. REL’s subs have won acclaim from virtually every high-end audio and home theater magazine you can name. RELs products, throughout its range, combine the highest technology with fundamental reliability, along with a unique approach to design that results in what many consider the most musical and powerful sounding subwoofers anywhere.

The REL Subwoofer – Quality without Distortion
The subwoofer’s task is to deliver musical fundamentals below the reach of ordinary loudspeakers. REL sub-bass systems are optimized to deliver highly accurate, dynamic low bass in music as well as film soundtracks. With a REL subwoofer, the loudness required for a real home theater or home dance club experience never results in distortion, a key factor that separates RELs from the subwoofer pack. Another factor that puts a REL subwoofer on top is its ability to integrate effortlessly with your main home audio system, enhancing its sound by naturally underpinning the output from the speakers−making them sound as if they’ve magically doubled in size.

Additionally, REL engineers work hard to make the overall design more mechanically efficient. Greater efficiency means more output from fewer watts of electricity consumed, which is a good thing on this steadily warming planet of ours. On the subject of sustainability, even the cabinet damping material used in some of REL’s most sought-after designs is made from recycled blue jeans. Sounds weird, but recycled denim is the finest, best-sounding stratified damping material for bass driver/cabinet interaction in test after test. It’s also worth noting that conventional wadding such as fiberglass takes about 100 million years to break down, give or take a million.
Manufactured with care by highly skilled Welsh technicians, REL’s subwoofers are simply the finest available on the planet, and would make an outstanding addition to your high-end audio or home theatre system.”