Rel Storm and Rel Strata III

I had the Stata II and upgraded to the Stata III. The Strata III is about as poweful as the orig. Storm, but I still don't think it loads a room quite as good as the orig. Storm. The great thing about the Strata III, compared to the orig. Storm, is the ability to have different crossover settings for the speaker level and line level inputs (works great in my combo HT/2-channel setup).

I think the Storm is ported, whereas the Strata is sealed. I tried both independently but not together. I think the Storm was more extended, but not as tight as the Strata.

There are magazine reviews on both subs at www.hifichoice.co.uk

PS: I have read other comments like Redkiwi's. I have also tried both. The Storm tightens up considerably if you upgrade the stock computer grade power cord that comes with it. (Yes is does have the IEC power cord connection.) I bought the Storm III

Hi Sugarbrie. I did try the Storm with the top-of-line XLO powercord - unfashionable today, but actually one of the more neutral sounding power cords, and the only one that I had spare that was long enough. I didn't get the chance to try the Storm and Strata together, but suspect the Strata sounded tighter only because it rolled-off quicker. I got more promising results from the Storm in terms of soundstage bloom and suspect it did a much better job in the 20 to 30Hz region.