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Hey there, John Hunter with REL here. We're really excited to introduce you to the new Commodore cables. These are designed specifically for .1/LFE, but we did it in a completely different way. Because REL, right? We spent a lot of time listening to different iterations of these over about a three year period. And what we ultimately wound up determining is that when you design a cable to be broadband width, not a subwoofer cable, when you just go, it has to do everything well, it kills when it comes to .1/LFE. It's just so much better and more expressive and more dynamic. So this is a really nice step up over our Commander cable. It is faster noticeably, and it's really important when you get into some of the stuff that is happening in a .1. And we've got a very specific protocol that we develop that allows us to hear, and it really focus on the .1, oddly enough, it doesn't involve the subwoofer.
What it does is it allows you to focus on all top to bottom, everything in the seam and things like lasers being switched on, things like very, very aggressive bombs going off the leading edge, that transient, which is a ultra-high frequency snap to it, right? And then the boom happens when you get that leading edge. Perfect. And these cables are the best I've heard, everything else takes on a totally different dimension. There's a sequence that we use in the old movie Iron Man from 2014 or something where the energizers in his palm are switched on and it becomes this very high frequency windup, not LFE at this point. And then when he actually uses it to shoot a proton charge out of his wrist, the explosion is unbelievable. We were able to hear dynamics and things that were happening in the thing that was shot. We can't hear with any other cable. So we're really proud of these Commodores. They're not crazy expensive. They're designed to work with things like the HT/1510, like our Serie S. Even the Reference would work fine with these. They allow a level of, this sounds crazy, a level of menace and extra clarity into the transience that make a really hyper-dynamic scene come to life.
These are going to go between your .1/LFE output and into R .1/LFE input. It's as simple as it gets like our commander. These are left hand threaded. And the reason I did that is because when you put a cable into a connector like this, right, it goes in fine in the first time, four months later you go to remove it and the heat from either the processor or the receiver has kind of bonded the two medals together. You go to pull it out and you tug on it and it's not coming. So what do we do? We turn it to our left because 90% of us, 89% of us are right-handed. And we do that. And what do we have? We have a cable connector that comes undone. There's so much detail that goes into this. We must have taken four months to get this connector right.
For example, it's machined down to within an arch of as little as can be. And why do we reduce it so much? Because we know that when you're back there looking at the back of an AVR, there's precious little room for additional connectors bumping up against each other. So we've kept it as short as possible and we've machined down on a really descending radius so that we get rid of all this material. It gives you just enough to grab onto with your fingers. So it's not making it hard for you to do. If we were to make it super short, you'd never get in there. All the other connectors around it, I've seen those ones where it's a little acorn and they don't work as well, but we took away all the material we could. We used this beautiful braided cord covering and really worked very hard to reduce the diameter of the cable itself is a very, very narrow cable.
This thing has been rolled up in a coil for four months and yet many cables you go to unroll them, especially the ones that have the hard plastic covering on them, they keep the twist. So it takes you about two weeks before it actually relaxes onto your carpet or your floor. Here you go. This thing has been quelled up forever and the minute I do this, it lays perfectly. It just lays out and it's tiny. So if you're trying to run this along a baseboard, you can actually physically tuck it tighter down into the carpet, for example, and it disappears leaving probably just the top third or so of the cable showing. So we've tried to think about everything from the ownership standpoint. Beautiful cables, great, fantastic, great sounding check. But a lot of the little details that we build in as usual have more than one purpose to it. These are some of the details that we really sweat here at well, may seem trivial to some. It's really important to our customers and we know that.
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