HT-Air MKII Explained: Stylish, Upgraded, Easy to Use Wireless. Perfect for Theatre or Music

Hey there, John Hunter with REL here. We're here introducing the new HT- AirMKII. We're known throughout the industry for the quality of our wireless. It's not something that's easy to pull off. In this case, we've got a relatively affordable, beautifully constructed. This is a solid block of cast acrylic. It's incredibly heavy for its size, beautifully machined. And it's a full 5.8 gig wireless system. You'll notice that we've got a host of simple features on here. These are designed to really be easy to work with. We've worked over the years to get our pairing down to a science. Out of the box, there's a 50% chance it'll just automatically pair, but if it doesn't, you simply push that button, walk over to the receiver, push that button, and in an eighth of a second, you've got a locked light and you've got sound.
Very easy to use. Now, we supply this with two inputs. Why? It's good for either two channel audio, right? So if you're using this in a stereo application, you can run it out of your pre-amplifier into left and right here. Red being the right, white being the left. But if you're using it for 0.1 for theater application, you only need to use one of these. So run it from your 0.1 LFE RCA out on your AVR or on your processor. Goes straight into this. Works brilliantly, locks up like that. It's beautiful. Easy to handle. I love some of the little details on this. The base of this is really very soft, so it won't scratch the surface it's sitting on. And we actually have the REL Crown logo that's been debossed into the surface of this very soft, lightweight rubber.
And for those of you with really good eyes, we have the exact same thing here. So the REL Crown logo and only that is debossed into the top surface of this as well. It's beautiful piece. It's intended to work with things like our HTs, really anybody’s subwoofer. These are universal. We probably sell as many again for other people subwoofers as we do with our own. They're very, very popular. Everybody understands that ours are bulletproof. You know, we only claim about 35 feet. We test at 55 feet down an occluded hallway, meaning we've got things that are designed to actually diffuse and spray the sound and make it harder. And we do that test at 55 to 60 feet. So it's a big robust signal. It's 5.8 gigahertz. It locks up in your system and works perfectly out of the box. It's kind of a no-brainer. If you ever wanted to have high quality wireless, you're thinking I've got something like a sliding glass window behind, or door behind my subwoofer, I can't run cables over there, this is going to be awful. Just find a sightline for this, for the transmitter, and you're there.

[@carlsitler9071]

John. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Because I watched your videos, my system has gone next level. In tuning my quad 15s and 2 subs to my MTMs, I did a 0 hz to 100 hz sweep with each sub to find one had horrific resonances around 50 to 60 hz so I pulled it back out of the system. My old Boston sub performed great with no resonances. I felt my highs were recessed and although Sam Ash pro speaker wire made an improvement over lamp cord, I thought they should be more lively. I ended up lowering the gain on the quad 15s and tuned to sub in and not only are the highs much more lively, the bongo and tom hits are much sharper. I did use Old Friend intitially but used Santana Arbaxas for funal tuning. Thank you so much. You are the man.

[@RELAcoustics]

Thank you for reaching out, and we are glad to hear that you have gotten the subwoofers tuned well in your system! If anything else comes up or if you have any additional questions then feel free to let us know and we will be happy to assist.

[@user-fk2om3nd2r]

How many of these units could you use in your HT system before problems arise? Same question for the airship II product?

[@RELAcoustics]

Thank you for reaching out. As long as the wireless transmitter units are placed at minimum 12 inches apart from each other in your room, then you could run many HT-Air MKII or other REL wireless systems in a single room without any transmission or interference issues.

[@nbat58]

Hi, can I use the HT Air MKii to connect an already connected HT1205 wired via LFE to an AVR directy to a stereo amp for use with my stereo equipment? Thanks.

[@RELAcoustics]

Thank you for reaching out. When connecting to a REL subwoofer, we recommend either exclusively using a direct wired connection, or exclusively using a wireless connection.

[@martymcfluff2364]

Hi there, are there any performance differences between this MKII model and the original HT-Air for .1 applications?

[@RELAcoustics]

Thank you for reaching out. Both the original HT-Air and the new HT-Air MKII use a 5.8GHz wireless signal band, though the new HT-Air MKII allows for two channels of wireless signal transmission, with both left channel and right channel connectors on both the transmitter and receiver units.

[@kael13]

If you go with a two channel setup I’m assuming you need a power amp? Can you tell us what chip you use for the analogue out stage?