REL - HT/1508 Predator Subwoofer

My favorite monster! She can be so subtle and fade into the background and all of a sudden a deep rumble that you feel in your chest. Clean and punchy bass! Worth the money. This 15in driver is fast and tight.

Great performer. Simple set up. HUGE soundstage. Replaced 10” REL sub with this one and couldn’t be happier.

After a lot of research, many forums, and YouTube videos, I decided to buy two Predators.It's true, they don't have the extension that other subwoofers have, but they do punch hard, go low enough, and sound clear.The bass sounds tight, and well defined. In the past I could hear my sub pressurizing the room with bass, but it was just bass and nothing else. Now I can hear the sound inside the bass, I can hear well defined notes, and not just a boom.But now the negative, there is no high level input, and yes, that's a big negative.I was going to purchase a Rel Airship, which has high level and lfe inputs to send the signal wirelessly and make my Predator act like an S model... but you can't! because the 1508 does not have separate input levels.So that was very upsetting to realize.And today, after a week of use, I can hear both subwoofers buzzing when I'm up close, they were not making this noise at all on the previous day; and of curse, I just threw the boxes away.I really hope they don't get any worst. (by up close, I mean less than three feet away)

I purchased 2 at first. To be honest, at first i was underwhelmed. What they dont tell you, but definitely should, is that they require about 20 hours of breakin before blasting them. Before that, they just werent very loud. I was second guessing my purchase at first. But once they opened up, they sounded great.So my advice, put the gain at 9 o clock and let them run continuously with some deep bass music. Once opened up, set the gain to 11 and let them do there thing.To be fair, the manual references the break in period, but it should be front and center in the packaging.Since that, I purchased 2 more and cant wait to here what 4 can do.

Thats true, you can hear the bass , not just booming, tight Clear Bass ! I ordered SVS Sb16 and Predator at the same time , the svs like a regular sab , booming, go deep - , but you can’t hear the bass, svs playing like my old two JBL PB subs (1k each 600rms 22hrz-150hrz-) .. but REL - you have to try ! I wish one day to buy higher model just for music !