How to throw a subwoofer

news REL’s drivers are ‘hand-thrown’; it’s the only way, says the company, to truly randomise the fibres within the lightweight-but-stiff hot-pressed paper that forms the main body of the 12-inch downfiring cone inside the new Classic 99 subwoofer. Random fibres ensure excellent self-damping, it says, revealing one of REL’s secrets. Bringing the driver to complete silence produces the subwoofer’s startling dynamics. The new Classic 99 model builds on the previous Classic 98, with a new cabinet using solid walls as thick as 32mm, clad in a hand-fitted walnut veneer, and imbued with more power — a 450W Class-D amplifier fed by an all-analogue PerfectFilter front-end, extending useful output deeper than before, well into the low 20s of hertz, impressive depth for such a goodlooking subwoofer at the price of $3699.…

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