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T/9x Grey Product Overview
Grey is the New Black: Discover the T/9x Subwoofer
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Hi, John Hunter with REL here, and do not adjust your television sets if you were tuning in expecting to see a black or white, this really is a grey. Your monitor’s just fine. Now, you’ve probably seen some of the special editions we’ve done over the years with Ferrari Red, you know, beautiful feet and more high performance drivers than even the standard T/9x has. This is part of our standard line. This will be available naturally with the white, the black. There’s no difference in price between them.
Why grey? Well, first of all, greys are enormously popular right now in design circles. I can’t tell you how many new young friends have just bought their first apartment or their first home, and they always get them painted out in a nice crisp light grey on the interior with off-white crown moldings, off-white baseboards.
It’s a beautiful look. It’s very crisp, it’s very clean, it’s very contemporary. Works with people who have traditional furniture types and works beautifully with modern too. So, it’s sort of a one size catches all. This is so hard to get the colors right. This is not a huge item, right? This is a 300 watt 10 inch double 10 subwoofer. It’s not enormous. And what happens when an object is not as big as, say a car or the wall in a home, is you have to really carefully titrate the colors to get it just right. It was amazing how many different samples we went through. I wanna say it was something like all total there, probably 30, I didn’t even share with my team. It was somewhere in the 50-52 range before we got it zeroed in and really understood what would look good on this object in the home.
It’s a great piece of the gunmetal grey that’s used for the standard badging and the standard feet, fits it to a T. It all just snapped together. Once we got the color just right, we always use five coats of a finish, usually typically two different primers underneath. We use a high build primer to just add a smoothing layer to the subtext underneath it, and then we use a finishing primer on top of that. Then we build up the five coats and of course, our factories spray double coats. So it’s five coats horizontal, five coats vertical. It helps smooth things out. You don’t get spray lines, you don’t get that thing where you’re looking at, is there something wrong with my eyes? It almost looks like there’s a stripe in the middle. You never get that with ours. So one coat is to spray it horizontal. You let it tack dry and then you spray it vertically and go crazy with the sprayer and it gives this body and this uniformity that’s just gorgeous. So this is really just a very simple piece. It’s only available in the T/9x. It’s not available currently on the T/7xs or the T/5xs, but this is really designed to take one of our best sellers worldwide and give that grey that sort of fits right in between the black and the white, and really is complimentary of so many people’s lifestyles these days.