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Was thinking of ordering 10" Ethos was needing the physical dimension for these subs. Also needing recommended enclosure sizes for a ported enclosure.

Final MAP pricing Ethos 12 $345 with free shipping to continental U.S. Ethos 15 $355 with free shipping to continental U.S. Preorder Sale terms of sale: Sale will begin on Monday July 22, 2013 at 12:01 a.m. central standard time and will end August 11, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Product purchased during the sale will be refundable up until the closing of the sale MINUS 10 PERCENT of sale price to cover paypal fees that I will incure. Product is expected to start shipping to customers on the week of August 12, 2013 however like all sales this is an estimate and can vary. Pre order Product will NOT be ref…

All parts for the Ethos have been ordered and I'm expecting them to be in around 3 months. ETA will depend on if all of the parts leave China before Chinese New Year. So to be on the safe side I expect them to be in Mid to late March. For this order only 12 inch and 15 inch drivers will be available. Terms of presale are as follows. -prices are shipped to the lower 48 12 driver dual one and dual two $300 15 driver dual one and dual two $310 -preorder sales are refundable. I have already paid for the parts and they have been ordered. This presale is to only gauge interest not to use your money to purchase the parts. Any returns will be subject to a $25 refund fe…

All info on the 12 inch Ethos will be located here. Still working on large signal parameters. For now here are the physical dimensions of the driver.

The 12 as recieved via FedEx from the build house. Each package has the sub's serial number on it. And the model of sub, size, and ohm load. No need to worry about theft during shipping. ALL orders are shipped direct signature. You must sign for it for FedEx to drop it off. On top is the warranty card. This must be filled out and mailed back to me for your THREE YEAR WARRANTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we have a little wood Foam to keep the sub from shifting plastic bag to keep it nice and pretty box attached to the inside of the packaging to keep motor from shifting. Had an issue with scrat…

since all the kiddies like videos, here is the Ethos 15 on ~1,750 watts. Mind the jerry rigged set up. I don't currently have a large enough battery supply in my shop to run my power convertor on a large amount of power.

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

I was wondering what is the absolute smallest amount of airspace per 15 I can go with ported.

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

Q- you still planning the 18" ethos? I saw in the 10" thread the you stated late this yr, but also mentioned that the 10 would be a different line.

Just took the plunge and placed the ordered for my Ethos 18" dual 2 ohm. I can't give enough praise to Quentin. This man doesn't know me from anyone and has treated me like I was holding cash in front of him in a store. Customer service like this is rare nowadays (I'm a Regional Director for a restaurant company) and I was repeatedly blown away by his willingness to answer questions that I had and quick response time. I really appreciate his tactfulness and I look forward to seeing his business blow up over the next few months/years. Just superb service top to bottom...thanks again Quentin. Now...I eagerly await it's arrival -Josh

In the next few days I will open preorders for the Ethos. Pricing will be as followed. Pricing does NOT include shipping. ETHOS 10" retail $322.95 preorder $273.95 12" retail $329.95 preorder $279.95 15" retail $339.95 preorder $288.95 18" retail $359.95 preorder $305.95 TRIDENT preorder won't open for about 6 weeks but preliminary pricing looks like this. for those not in the know, the Trident is the first and only transducer ever developed with three air gaps. It uses a large 11" OD triple gap MMAG motor with 3 inch 8 layer coil. Box specs will look similar to the Ethos. Power recommendat…

For those of you that want a driver specifically designed for fourth order bandpass enclosures I am looking at offering this option. As long as I don't have to add mass to the moving assembly to achieve desirable frequency response it will be a free of charge option. Details later today.

I recieved a few sample coils from Precision Econowind to day so I figured I'd post a few photos. These coils are dual one ohm, 4 layer pure flat copper coils. I am expecting to recieve the motor sample in a few weeks. It's been backed up due to the magnet supplier. I also have a custom tooled dust cap being made with DSS (Direct Sound Solutions) engraved into the bottom right side of the cap. If all goes well and the sample is within spec, the production run will be placed as soon as it comes off the Klippel.

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

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'm expecting them to be in for tax time. I'll post preliminary small signal parameters for each size based off FEA programs however official T/S parameters will not be posted until I have each size and coil configuration Klippel tested. In addition to Small signal parameters I will have Large Signal parameters list which is what will be used to determine enclosure specifications. Below are the preliminary pricing I am expecting these to MAP for. They may very a bit but I don't expect it to be more than 5 or 10 bucks more or less. 10"= $275 12"= $282 15"= $290 18"= $305

I'm think of running some Ethos subs in my truck. I have about 8~ cu ft to play with and an SAZ-3500v2 for power. Would running 4 12s on that amount of power be a waste versus just running 2 15s or would there be anything to gain?

Orders are now closed for all Ethos drivers. Estimated time of arrival on the orders purchased through the preorder is scheduled in towards the end of October. We will update customers as we get more up to date information from our suppliers. We are working on getting all soft parts assembled so we will only have to drop in the soft parts once the motors arrive. This will minimize build time greatly. All pre-order sales are final. No refunds will be issued for pre-orders. The arrival time is an estimated timeframe only. The drivers could arrive earlier or later than expected. Due to unexpectedly high sales volume we have sold 90 percent of the Ethos motors ordered…

This label will be attached to the outside of the shipping packaging for product identification

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE FINALIZED PARAMETERS FOR THE 12 INCH AND 15 INCH DSS ETHOS TRANSDUCERS (NOTE: physical dimension will be added soon) 12 INCH DSS ETHOS re 3 ohms Le 2.94 mH Qms 5.91 Qes .54 Qts .49 Fs 28.24 hz Mms 326.15 grams Cms .1 mm/N BL 21.43 T/M Vas 33.1 liters spl 84.99 1w/1m sd 490.87 cm^2 xmax 32.5mm per 70% Bl rating recommended power 1,800 watts 15 INCH DSS ETHOS re 3 ohms Le 2.94 mH Qms 10.6 Qes .69 Qts .64 Fs 25.78 hz Mms 362.9 grams Cms .1 mm/N BL 21.43 T/M Vas 95.93 liters spl …

Klippel results are in. I was able to get full small signal results. (ones used when building boxes). But was unable to get complete large signal parameters because their 5,000 watts RMS amp couldn't push it to XMECH. I'll have graphs and parameters up tonight.

I didn't have much time to fool with it so I just took some quick pics with the iphone. For size reference, 18 inch basket and 10 inch basket Once I get it together and broke in I have to send it to Arizona to put on a Klippel analyzer to verify parameters and to do AES power rating on it.