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Our new Airship Direct is designed literally to plug in and meld perfectly with your new Serie S subwoofers. We call it the Direct because it literally directly plugs into a socket on the back. The beauty of REL wireless is really simple.
Most wireless for audio is an afterthought. It is produced by large factories that are turning stuff out for computer wireless all the time. It's not voiced. It's not designed to actually be a high production or high quality audio product. It gets you wireless and it gets you strangled sounding wireless. It's thin. It's often set up as a compressed digital file format, so that you're destroying the music in order to save it on the other end. It's not how it works.
So, ours actually streams in real time at all times, which means that you do not want to have a decent robust Wi-Fi system. Don't try hooking this up, you know, with your teenage child that's upstairs playing very fast, very high data rate games, while your wife and daughter are trying to stream something. All of this on a decrepit Wi-Fi system. This is an enormous package of data and it's continuous and there's no compression.
So, we're literally sending it as though you were sending ultra-high resolution music to wherever your speakers are because that's exactly what we're doing. So, what we do with it is a little different. We actually replace the front half of our filter board in the transmitter because you need to be able to connect up to your power amplifier if you're doing high level. You need to be able to connect up to the LFE out if you're doing music and theatre and those have to actually be handled in the transmitter.
So, the transmitter is an outright bargain in this entire context. We then stream over a combined data stream to this. It has very little latency. It's incredibly quick like everything we do. Somewhere in the range of 15 to 20 milliseconds of group delay typically for the entire thing. That includes actually doing the step down circuit for the high level to step down. All of that.
And then we send it pure unmitigated. It is exactly the way you would want to do it if you had access and the engineers to do it. We did it for you.
This plugs in and it locks in. There are two Allen head bolts that come in here. You're going to snug those down, and you're going to do nothing more than turn it on, turn on your transmitter, and you'll hit pair, and you're done. By the time you release pair, you'll see this light goes steady on, and you've got sound.
It also is designed to work with our standby circuit. So, if you're somebody that uses standby, it will go to sleep. It will not burble and make any noises that terrify you at 2:00 in the morning, and it will stay dead silent until you play something loud enough to trigger it.
So, it is such a well-thought-out system now. We've been building iteratively improved versions of this for 15 years. We're really good at this. We get feedback all the time that other subwoofer manufacturers are always telling people to just buy ours. It's better.
So, the Airships are top-of-the-line. This is for the Serie S and future models that'll be coming out using this plug-in circuitry.
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