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Running In
Care taken over running in will be rewarded by many years of pleasurable use. Both the electronics and the
drive unit will benet from an inial period of carefully controlled use. Possible damage may be sustained
by running in the unit at too high a volume seng over an extended period. On the other hand, by taking a
lile care over this inial period, about 24 hours of actual use, a longer life with an eventual higher potenal
performance is assured.
Care and Polishing
The cabinets are best maintained by using a light automove spray-on wax and a micro ber cloth. (We use
a spray-on made by a company called Griot’s Garage™. While this may not be available in all markets, you
can use a similar product). Take care not to spray the aluminum badge. Do not place objects, such as drinks
on top of your REL Habitat1. Never use a dry cloth on this nish.
Technical
The Longbow™ transmier provides true REL Theater Reference™ connecvity, perming both HIGH LEVEL
and LFE channels to be wirelessly fed to Habitat1. This occurs with virtually zero delay and a complete
absence of compression.
Habitat1 uses a very fast, gentle and transparent lter intended to allow excellent impulse response
and a natural sound. We refer to this circuit as Natural Rollo™. Most subs use slow, very steep lters that
lend an unnatural, machine-like quality to the sound. The Habitat1 employs a highly rened Class-D amplier
which combines high performance and high eciency. The drivers are simple, rugged and relavely light,
and yet oers excellent self-damping so we are beer able to reproduce the nuance of music and preserve
the explosiveness of transients. Finally, the cabinets, apart from being physically beauful, are like nely
tuned instruments that are largely responsible for the sonic virtue with which the Habitat1 is imbued.
