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It's not the customer's concern; but it is the company's concern. Their time isn't free. If they spent a considerable amount of time engineering and developing the product, the money for that time and development will be recouped though the price of the product. Also keep in mind that the AA SMD is not a direct-to-consumer product like the Fi drivers are. While I'm not privy to any information, my guess would be that the MSRP will be higher since more than one company has to make money. At minimum there is a dealer network that also has to make money on the drivers as well as the buildhouse (Fi), AA as a company (I'm assuming AA operates as a separate company, but I don't really know), and probably some $ goes to SMD for having his name on the product.....unlike Fi which only has to make enough profit for themselves. So there's potentially 4 people in the mix who need to make money, unlike Fi who only has to support themselves with the sale of a BTL.

The answer to your question is..I can't tell you which one will be louder. I will tell you which one will be louder the day that you give me the winning lottery numbers to every single state lottery in the United States....point is that's a crap shoot. In acoustics nothing is constant...you may have a wicked impedance rise and be down 3dB with the SMD's...but have 1/3 of the power that you had to the BTL's. So in all reality it is..louder? You can't drop a top fuel drag motor into a Hyundai and expect it to hook the stock p185 tires the same as the stock motor in the Hyundai did...can you? So that means that things have to change..right? It takes 6 times as much time on the CNC to do 1 motor then it does a BTL. (You cannot run low carbon gummy steel fast on a CNC, it will burn carbide bits up like they are nothing. You also have 3 times as much material there to run through) 1 pole takes 26 minutes to run in the CNC alone...that's not a finished part either..that's just 1 piece unfinished. It takes 3 times as much time to prepare all of the parts for assembly. The SMD motor assembly has FOUR drill presses of its own...that is only used for the SMD's...nothing else. Then you have to cut all of the aluminum stock and machine that down to the sizes that it needs to be...then you have to drill and tap all of the holes... It takes an average of an hour to assemble the motor assembly itself, it also then takes about an hour to assemble the soft part assembly...and we're not even getting into allocating the tooling die cost of the parts that we tooled for it..and the depreciation of it over time. Time is money, you have to pay somebody to work..because nobody works for free. If you want something that is assembled by a robot then go for it..i'll put what we build up against it all day every day. We don't run on "loans"..many business do, and is very risky and is why many businesses are failing now. So you can throw that argument out as to why a price should drop because we have nothing to 'pay off'. We purchase our raw materials..prices are not going to drop on anything. As the price of steel goes up it directly effects what we buy as raw materials...you'll see it everywhere in due time. Regardless, what you do not understand is how time consuming the process is to build those things. I can build a 3 stack motored sub in about 30 minutes from raw parts to compete finished product... The pole piece of an SMD is barely done running on the CNC by the time i'm done with a 3 stack 'normal' motored sub. Get it? It's the difference in actually doing something..versus ordering pre-assembled motors from overseas and dropping shoddy soft parts in them. If you want a Hyundai..then buy a Hyundai. The difference in this is that is equivalent in time of a Ferrari to build..as they build every single part..by hand..in Italy. No, before you go there I'm not claiming that we build every single part in house either...regardless i'm trying to make you see that this takes a lot of TIME to build. Which when you go to order a Ferrari is why it takes you a year to get one from the day that you order it ( if memory serves me correctly from reading years ago ) Time is money...if you want to play..then you gotta pay.

Your problem is not clipping. Cutting out is a better term. Clipping describes a signal wave shape, whereas in your case you are getting no signal at all. Is the amp going into protect when it cuts out? Couple possibilities- Insufficient ground (did you scrape off the paint at the grounding point and ground to a solid piece of metal?) Insufficient power supply. What size alternator and battery do you have? What size power wire? Is the voltage you see at 14v just your dash meter? If so, get a voltmeter and test directly at the amp's power and ground leads as the music is playing. Bad amp

You are making it more difficult than it really is. If you are trying to set your gain with a DMM, then the formula is; sqrt(Power * Resistance) = Voltage So if you have an amplifier that is 800w @ 2ohm, you would have; sqrt(800 * 2) = 40V The other option is to say screw the formula and just set the gain by ear. Considering 800w is way more power than a single 12w3v2 will be able to handle (based on the voltages you mention, it appears you have an 800w @ 2ohm amplifier), setting by ear is probably the best method anyways. Or, if you really want to use the formula, you could use 300w (the rated power handling of the subwoofer) in the formula instead of the amplifier's power; sqrt(300 * 2) = 24.5V You can use that as a "baseline" and then adjust by ear from there.

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An SMD couldn't be more different than a BTL or ANY other sub that is on the market. You have NOOOOOOOOOOOO idea how much time it takes to build one of those things...you can build almost 10 BTL's in the amount of time it takes to do one of those subs...and for what it is it is and how much time and effort that has went into developing it...it is very cheap. They will never get cheaper, nor will anything ever get cheaper as raw materials cost keeps going up and up and up. Compared to the other "manufacturers" that "build" products in the US we are the most cost effective..without a doubt. Mmats is getting almost 1200 bucks for a Juggernaut...and I'd put a Mayhem up against it all day every day no problem. If you are looking for something that is truly unique..and nobody else can do...then the SMD is the route to go. It's simply a sick woofer that is truly machined and built by hand..in Las Vegas.

i've seen several single 12 setups that will out meter an 18...size really doesnt mean all that much. theoretically a couple 15s should b louder than a 12, but it all depends on the install. hell, jacob did a 150.x or some rediculous number with a single 8" sub...im guessing i wasn't doing a 150 with my 18...its all in the install.

Who would that be? DC I'm guessing? Mach 5 Audio is now on CACO. And that's as far as it goes on here because I am 100% sure there are only a few people who know all the details, and I can guarantee nobody in here does.

An epic waste of money putting that many mids in there. And time, and space....

An epic waste of money putting that many mids in there.

The DC resistance is the measurement of the coil at rest. When the cone starts moving, the magnetic field associated with the magnet and the moving coil increases the resistance of the voice coil. Usually the more resonant the enclosure, the higher the impedance rise.

um you guys are kinda dumb yeah....^^^^^^^ how are you comparing a 2500 rms sub to a 400-600 watt sub.. not everyone has the same goals. get real

i suggest ditching the amp u got and get a sundown