REL Storm Owners manual
REL
Operating Instructions
for the
STORM
Sub-Bass System
REL Acoustics Ltd
North Road, Bridgend Industrial Estate
Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan, CF31 3TP
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01 656 768 777; International: +441 656 768 777
Fax: 01 656 766 093; International: +441 656 766 093
WELCOME
Thank you for buying the REL STORM Sub-Bass system STORM has been
carefully hand crafted from the finest materials available and we are sure that it
will give you many years of listening pleasure. This manual contains important
safety information as well as helpful advice and should be carefully studied
before connecting up.
World Wide Warranty
In addition to any local Warranty, REL offer a 3-year conditional Worldwide
Warranty to the end user. It is done in collaboration with our Distributors.
The conditions of this Warranty are:
1. That REL receive the necessary registration details from the end user.
2. That these details are received within six weeks of purchase.
3. That the product is not exported from the country of purchase for at least eight
weeks after purchase.
4. That any claim is accompanied by the necessary proof of purchase.
5. That it shall be for a term of 3 years from the date of purchase.
6. That the product has not been abused or modified in any way.
This Warranty is offered in good faith and is in addition to any statuary rights or
existing Warranty that may be available to the end user.
Should your STORM unit give you a problem, please contact your Dealer who will
be able to make whatever arrangements are necessary to correct it.
SERVICE AFTER WARRANTY
Please contact your Dealer in the first instance before returning any product
direct to us. Should the unit need to be returned for any reason, all carriage
costs will be payable by the Customer. Losses or damage caused during transit
are the Customer's risk.
WARNING
This item is heavy! To avoid risk of injury, take care when handling.
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CONNECTING UP
Always switch off your system before disconnecting any wires.
To increase the versatility of the choice of connecting up, Storm has three
entirely separate sets of input sockets, two Neutrik and one pair of phonos.
The first Neutrik is a dual channel (stereo) unbalanced input at high level
designed to accept the much higher level signals from the speaker
terminals of the power amplifier. This does have the advantage of ensuring
that your STORM receives exactly the same signal as the main speakers.
This means that the character of the bass from the main system is carried
forward into the sub-bass. This is a very important point and together with
the STORM's Active Bass Controller (ABC), ensures far superior system
integration of the sub-bass with the main system. So far as we are aware,
REL are the only sub-bass manufacturer to take this aspect of performance
sufficiently seriously to offer the listener this level of sophisticated control.
The second Neutrik is a single channel high level balanced input designed
to take the high level output again from the speaker terminals of bridged
monoblocks. (Two Storm subwoofers required, one for each channel).
The low level unbalanced phono inputs would normally be used to source
the signal from the "Sub-woofer Output” sockets, where available, from the
preamp or Dolby surround sound processor.
Screw the spikes into the feet of the sub-woofer, level them up or if
necessary compensate for an uneven floor. It is important that all 4 spikes
are located securely and that there is no tendency for STORM to rock. If it
does rock, simply adjust one (or more) of the spikes until it fits securely.
To Connect to the Power Amplifier:
See Fig. 1
1. Use your existing plugs or connect the STORM Neutrik interconnect to a
spare set of speaker terminals. In effect the STORM is bi-wired from
your power amplifier. However, note that there are only three
connections to STORM. This is deliberate and helps preserve the
existing star earthing of your system (assuming it has a star earth
arrangement). Connect the Red coloured wire from the Storm Neutrik
interconnect to the RED speaker terminal of the right channel of your
power amp. Then connect the yellow coloured wire to the RED coloured
terminal of the left channel on your power amp. The BLACK wire is
connected to either one of the Black terminals of your power amp. Do
not connect this black wire to both black terminals - this is important as
some amplifiers do not like having their black terminals joined. Connect
the Neutrik plug to the high level input on STORM.
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R/H L/H
R B R B
Amplifier Speaker
Outputs
Red Yellow Neutrik Speakon
Interconnect
(Supplied)
Black
To Subwoofer
High Level Input
Fig. 1
2. Connect the Mains lead to STORM and to the mains and switch ON.
To Connect to a Dedicated Sub-woofer Output:
See Fig. 2
1. For this connection it will be necessary to use whatever type of
connector is needed by this output. Normally it would be a phono type
connector. For this method of connection a phono to phono type
interconnect is required, available from your dealer.
Note:- If only a single phono subwoofer output is available, either use a ”y”
splitter to connect the two phono plugs from the REL or use a single
phono to phono interconnect. This will reduce the volume by 6db.
R/H L/H
Amplifier Dedicated
Subwoofer Outputs
Phono to Phono Interconnect
(Optional Extra)
To Subwoofer
Low Level Input
Fig. 2
2. Plug one end of the phono to phono interconnect into the dedicated
sub-woofer outputs on your power amplifier or surround processor
and the other end into the line level input on STORM.
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