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I will be giving shirts to competitors that will be running DSS product. Since y'all will be wearing them I want to make sure y'all approve. I know some of y'all are pretty big guys, will 4x suffice? I am thinking something along the lines of the below pic. The red would be blue, DSS logo will be on the back and front pocket and if you like your name would be embroidered on the front.

Klippel testing was performed to verify BL linearity. Testing came out good but I'm gonna try a 12 layer coil before I proceed with production. The current coil is 8 layer flat aluminum with 50mm winding width. This coil will work fine with the current soft parts limiting the driver to ~35mm xmax which will take ~2,500 watts rms to hit. However when I get my new soft parts made allowing ~50mm - 55mm one way xmax it will need ~3,500 watts to reach xmax and I'm not comfortable using the current coil with that much power. Below is the BL curve. It is prematurely cut off due to hitting suspension limits. It should remain nearly constant to 37.5mm. Still with the cu…

Only 24 Ethos left for presale. Once these are sold the next batch of Ethos will not be available until the beginning of February 2015.

I came home to a nice surprise today. I saw Quentin had a lay away plan so I took advantage! Ethos 15. This is so much bigger in person. It needs to be seen in person to really appreciate. Far bigger than I had used previously. Extremely well built. You can see great care was taken on the glue joints and little other details. Nice finishes and large diameter flat wound coil. My son Nico wanted to take it for a spin.

I have a 98 mustang with a trunk wall not yet sealed with two 12" ethos on a bc3500 at 1 ohm with stock 130 amp alt and two batteries. The box is a 3 cu. ft. box net tuned to 28 hz. I hit a max of 140.18 @ 43hz. with the driver door open. First time ever on a meter.

First let me start by saying my enclosure was not built for doing big numbers in mind, its a music box that plays damn near like a HT setup. This is strictly for fun and because the Ethos had to come out because I'm selling it to offset cost of the bigger build. My friend let me use his SP4 that is less than a year old until I pull it all out. The enclosure 3.65cu net tuned at 29hz with 44sqin of port. The amp and power Crescendo BC2000, 225amp alt and two group 34 batteries. Ethos 15 Dual 2ohm (wired at 1ohm) only pulling a max 60 amps of current according to the fluke clamp. SP4 fully loaded Dual 1ohm (wired at .5 ohm) pulling a max 83 amps of current I installed my E…

Ethos 15 recommended enclosures FOR REFERENCE THE WARM LARGE PARAMETERS ARE USED. THE GRAPHS CORRESPOND TO THESE PARAMETERS

I was wondering how would 4 ethos 15s perform on a crescendo 5500 I'm really stuck inbetween 4 ethos 15s and two zv4 18s

Would there be any interest for a 30 pound Ethos that was around $450 as an option in addition to the regular 65 pound Ethos?

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...after all you are the ones who will be buying them. These frames will be used for subwoofers with an xmax of 30mm or larger and will handle massive motors. One of the motors samples I have coming is pushing 100lbs. They will be Osd (oversized sd) to allow for massive xmax and retain sd. After all what's the point if high excursion 12 if you have the sd of an 8. The below sketches are of what the frames might look like (have to do a few mods for added features. This frame has and OD of 12.5 inches and will allow a surround of 2.75 inches wide and still keep the same amount of sd as typical cones being used on current 12 spoked bakets. It has enough clearance for…

While I work on my store, below are some parts I have to offer with pricing. Orders of $75 or more will receive FREE SHIPPING. Orders less than $75 will be quoted on a per order basis. ALL orders except orders containing cones will ship USPS. Gaskets will be folded to fit in flat rate shipping unless otherwise asked not to. GLUE KITS tba 12 SPOKE BASKETS 12 inch $26.8 15 inch $31.40 ALLEN HEAD MOTOR BOLTS 10mm long $.42 25mm long $.50 8 INCH PROGRESSIVE SPIDERS soft $4.5 medium $4.5 stiff $4.5 stiff w/ 100 amp leads $18 stiff …

I'm getting all of my stuff together to place orders for product to be in for the holidays this year but I am still undecided on which route to go on a 1,000 watt sub line. I have two options that I have priced, one is an MMAG driver and the other is an overhung driver just like the Ethos. Either route taken will end up with basically the same t/s parameters but they are pros to both designs. MMAG Primo pros 1.) Will have smaller coil (power handling still the same) which leads to less moving mass increasing efficiency which in turn will make it a tad louder. 2.) The smaller coil make inductance lower in turn creates less distortion (however would more than likely be…

Below is LPM or your typical small signal T/S parameters which I DO NOT use. (I'll get to that in a minute) ^ AS YOU CAN SEE THE CONE ONLY MOVED ABOUT .1MM THAT'S ONE TENTH OF A MILLIMETER! Large signal being uploaded now.

left to right: Magnetar (HUGE 270mm MMAG), Ethos, Fi BTL N3 coil Fi BTL N3 on left, Magnetar on right Magnetar coil: 76.657mm ID, ~92mm OD, 95mm winding hieght, dual thickness aluminum coil former, 15 gauge aluminum magnet wire

A custom built 15 from my spare parts rack I am building for a buddy. It's going to be ran in a 4 cubic foot enclosure tune to 34 hertz on a Kicker ZX500.1 in a Chevy Avalanche. As a side note I can do this for other people as well.

Hey Q, just as an heads up. I'm not really sure if this is because of the first batch of spiders you've received or not. I just know it's kind of been an common thing now, at least between the subs I've owned, along with others I've communicated with. When you move the spiders in an up and down rotation, one at a time, you hear this funny noise. It's not audible during play, and it's not with every subwoofer. I know you've always taken good care of everyone, and don't mean this thread to come across negative. Just informative, as it could be something to look out for in regards for the October shipment. Defective DSS Ethos Spiders: http://youtu.be/MrFsxtiQwys

I am going to try to put together the drivers I am working on here in this one topic. I'll try to give all the info that I have available including expected t/s parameters, price, ETA, ect. This first one could cater to the SQ crowd. It's designed to work in pretty small sealed and ported enclosures. It will be available in 10, 12, and 15 inch models. Below is the expected 12 inch parameters. Projected specs. 12'' sub Re 2.06 (series) Fo 32.82 Qts .4686 Qes .5022 Qms 7 (estimated) Vas 23.01 liters BL 17.19 T/M xmax 22.5mm one way @ 82% BL or ~27.5mm @ 70% BL Rms 10.29 Mms 346.1g spl 89.8 @2.83 volts 750 watts rms COIL 8 layer flat cop…

(2) 15's, 2 cft net per driver

4 CUBIC FEET NET TUNED TO 32 HERTZ. PORT 4.25 X 14.5 INCHES

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All current orders will go out as normal. New orders form here forward will be delayed for about two or so weeks. I am in the process of having all my motors and more than enough parts shipped to my shop so I can minimize lead time. The goal is to get far enough ahead that drivers will ship next day. Please excuse the wait while I make the transition. Also I am working with a local company to come up with a custom package solution so no damages will occur during shipping.

A production motor was air mailed to me so I coned it to a 15 and will be breaking it in over the next week to send out for klippel testing and power confirmation. I tested it with a DATS system and got some crazy numbers that just aren't physically possible so after it's broke in I'll just do the measurements by hand. I'm happy with it however the chrome is not as dark as I was expecting (I wanted black chrome) but it's much more durable than the black epoxy paint that was on the original sample. The below pics are a 15 and it weighs 61 pounds for those of you planning on 8 of these in a Scion. No cone shots as I just used plain dust caps. My custom tooled caps won…

I am working on an install for my buddy. I am looking at enclosure options for two Ethos 12" powered by a Crescendo BC2000D. The goals of the sub system is to sound good and be loud, should be easy Will 3 cubes net tuned to 32hz with a 6" aero port work well with two Ethos 12" powered by a BC2000D? BTW this is going in a late model Civic.