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The Magic of Tzero

Getting Perfectly Blended Bass in Small Spaces and Modest Systems

 

The Tzero is a wonderful little piece. We developed this a few years back thinking that it will make a wonderful sort of little small multimedia subwoofer, the kind of thing you’d hook up to a computer and while you can and should do that, it’s so much more.

It’s a real REL. It’s got a very fast, pistonic driver. The Tzero is a wonderful little piece. We developed this a few years back thinking that it will make a wonderful sort of little small multimedia subwoofer, the kind of thing you’d hook up to a computer and while you can and should do that, it’s so much more. It’s a real REL. It’s got a very fast, pistonic driver. It’s got a very quick amplifier and the same very fast filter boards that we use in our much more expensive pieces.

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It’s not designed to fill out a huge room. It’s not designed to play at astounding levels in a large room, but if you keep it in its sweet spot. Which is sort of a medium sized, perhaps home office, a dining room. We get a lot of these used these days with, center channel speakers in REL 3d theater hookups. We get a lot of them used with in ceiling speakers, for example, in the dining room. We can just take one of these behind a plant on the floor and you’ve got this beautiful room filling bass. That means that you don’t have to turn up the volume on background levels to the point that they’re intrusive for a dinner.

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It has a down firing, six and a half inch driver, not the largest bass driver for sure but this is tuned to make very, very good deep base into the upper thirties. The kinds of speakers that I would pair this with would be a modest size, five and a quarter inch, two way, perhaps even a four inch, two way. When you start getting up into larger six and a half inch drivers with larger cabinets that make a lot more bass it would probably be a natural pairing for another one of our models

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But this piece with smaller speakers in a smaller room is absolutely incredible. It fills out the sound stage. It does all those things that RELs are known for doing, at an astoundingly affordable price.


February 6, 2020 - Posted in: Sound Insights, Videos