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We can measure headphone spl.

Stop... Give suggestions for his pwx box. Instead of saying they are junk. Never said they were junk. If you know ANYTHING about audio then you know there is absolutely NO FUCKING way to give a suggestion that is worth a shit without parameters. What I have been strongly hinting at however is that he is going about an installation that will give him a ton of benefits. One that takes time, planning, and money to put together. Wasting that on ANY driver that isn't optimized for the install is stupid. As in really fucking stupid. It is also rather factual that most likely the PWX's are far from optimized for what he is doing. It would cost more money to pay someone to measure them or to buy the gear to measure himself than it would to replace them with something more appropriate for his needs and install. My recommendation is very clear in this regard. I like his goals and attempts to reach them. Makes sense almost completely except of course the current driver selection since they are completely unknown and come from a company that most definitely made compromises that will adversely affect their performance in his install. This is absolute audio 101. Can't get around that at all. Not quite sure why you'd find that confusing. Perhaps an analogy. Guy comes onto board. Has 1cuft of space and wants to design a box for an 18" sub. Should you "help him" design a box or point out perhaps that it won't work. This situation ends exactly the same of course with the caveat that potentially the driver wasn't designed as expected, but the possibility of that is VERY small.

So Cresendo doesn't just warranty an amplifier ran at 0.5 ohm you have to pay for an extended warranty like best buy or sears , If you pay for the extra special 0.5ohm warranty do you get a replacement amplifier or does your amp get repaired?, Who pays for the shipping or any extra fees incured in getting the amp fixed or replaced ? Personally I would rather buy an IA amplifier that have been proven rock soild and not worry about purchasing an extended warranty I like the BC series amps by the way,( they are a great value) but you are not comparing apples to apples with the IA amplifiers

do you even own a evil? i find it funny you requesting something bigger .... when you have yet to own the biggest in the series....... come to think of it.. i dont even remember you running a Zcon. f you can dislike this now. LMAO, damn man, why are your panties in a bunch about a hypothetical sub? And no, I've never owned an Evil, also I didn't know there was a requirement to own something first to want something bigger.

do you even own a evil? i find it funny you requesting something bigger .... when you have yet to own the biggest in the series....... come to think of it.. i dont even remember you running a Zcon. you can dislike this now.

I picked them up used unfortunately on an awesome deal so I had to take what u could get lol

SSA FTW!!! Tried a DCON? try a GCON. Tried the G? Get an ICON! So many to choose from ought to keep you busy for awhile...Maybe you might be feeling a little Evil? Halloween is fast approaching Oh ya...what Rick said

The Evil has been out.

I'd say the evil could be considered the team sub.

I had a long talk with Enrique the other day. And he gave some suggestions to improve the overall performance of the driver. 1. First and for-most the gaps needed tweaking. The troughs between the gaps were a little high in flux. So I needed to seperate the gaps a little. In the process of doing this I decreased the thickness of the plates, increasing the flux intensity while doing so actually allowing less magnet needed in the motor. 2. Being I did not need as much magnet between the top plates I was able to include a heat ring between the bottom top plate and the upper magnet. The ring will have sinks on the interior and exterior a kin to a amplifier heat sink. The ring itself will (8) channels cut into it radiating outward. The pumping action will pull air from outside of the motor directly onto the coil while also pulling air across the heat sinks further drwing heat from the coil. 3. Due to the geometry changes on the top plates I was also able to shrink the coil 2mm 4. faraday rings were added to the pole which is more effective than having faraday rings outside the coil. Doing this we get less impedance rise due to less heat, less induction due to shorter coil, less induction due to faraday rings on the pole, and increased power rating. Also the aluminum heat ring helps reduce flux modulation of the gap keeping BL more linear. Below is a cut view of the motor and the heat ring. The heat ring has been colored blue in the motor. Depending on the capabilities the dimensions of the sinks could change.

Put the new wheels on the 71, now it's looking like I want. Gonna drop it another couple inches though. Now it's ready to work on the sounds. Fiber glassing pods time I guess. No sub, just a good full sounding 6.5 component set I think.

My manly Martha stewart progress for the evening. Need to pick up some larger grosgrain trim for the edges tomorrow.

I must say, the wording seems off. "Tag a friend wants to see all the new ia subwoofers." I feel there should be a "that" after "friend" in there.

Still not quite clear on what happened to the original sub woofer, as to why it is reading so off after power was applied. But we are still sending out a recone kit to fix the issue.

It really boils down to a few things : 1) The X has a dramatically louder bottom-end than the SA series or any other speaker we made before. 2) The X has WAY less suspension induced distortion than our SA series or any other speaker we made before. If either one of those things is something you don't like -- you may not like the X. The closest thing to a complaint I've had is some folks interpret 1 and 2 together as the driver lacking top-end -- but it's actually a lack of parameter shift over stroke; the driver stays FLAT rather than increasing the top-end over stroke. Here is a post I made on CACO about it : "The new platform drivers are a totally different animal than anything we've made before; and anything most anyone has made before. Not only are we starting with a lower FS but our FS changes VERY little over stroke. It's a much lower distortion sound but the distortion of shifting Fs (and Qts) has a sound best described as "punchy" to the ear. See the following (don't mind the objective # in the FS column -- just look at how it changes) : * At 2" p-p the SA-12 FS is over 50% higher than at-rest * At 2" p-p the SA-12 Qts has risen to triple it's rest value * At 2" p-p the Z v.4 Fs has changed essentially none * At 2" p-p the Z v.4 Qts has changed VERY little; with a max deviation of ~25% or so on the forward stroke ----- Now... take a woofer and model it up with those changes to the parameters found on the SA-12 (which is a good representation of how many standard drivers act). You will see a massive increase in output toward the top-end and a massive decrease at the bottom-end over stroke. On the Z v.4 you will not see this -- the response remains relatively unchanged over stroke. So compared to a less linear driver the increase in bottom-end over stroke can be MASSIVE as it simply does not drop off over stroke... but you won't hear the "punch" at the top-end generated by the distortion modes of shifting parameters. ----- In many conversations with Dan Wiggins this theme came up... with XBL^2 you greatly reduce the QTS rise from a BL perspective (we are reducing it from a suspension perspective which also greatly reduces FS shift). Even then people complained that the Brahma drivers were not "punchy" -- what they actually were complaining about was a lack of distortion. Down the line I plan to combine our suspension platform with a linear BL topology as well. That definitely won't be for everyone as the shifts of every parameter will decrease even further. ----- In any event -- I expected to hear these type of reviews based on what people said about XBL^2 drivers 10+ years ago. Bottom line, to me, is that the design is objectively superior and fits what customers told me they wanted from their subs -- the most bottom end possible. Our SPL suspension system that is in the works for the new platform will offer a more "traditional" sound and also work better for higher frequency SPL for the same reason."

Oui, this is what happens when I only work on emails all weekend, take half a day off and not keep on top of the forums every 30 minutes like always. First off, this customer ordered a D4, as he said, for the first sub. When it arrived, he swore up and down that he got a D2 sub. Which by the way, had never happened before where a customer was sent the wrong coil, so it was VERY surprising to have someone say they got the wrong coil. Since he was so adamant about the wrong coil and has been accusatory from the get go, I assumed he was using a trusty DMM and was reading it correctly, I apologized for the supposed mistake of the build house, so for his second sub, we adjusted it to a D2 coil. So his second sub came and appears to be a D2 as ordered. For future reference, there are three different people who check or overlook the sub before it leaves the build house, so to say we have no quality control is clearly not accurate. There is markings on the box, the build ticket and the former, so it is HIGHLY unlikely that a sub would ever ship out with the wrong VC. Yes, we are a small brand, but clearly we have experience doing this and we have NEVER and I mean NEVER screwed over a customer and as explained and posted numerous times in a thread, if a mistake was made we have always worked to correct it asap. So for one customer to be claiming it happened twice, seems quite odd. As explained in this thread, the D4 coils have a resistance lower than D4, same with D2. The Gcon does NOT come in a D1 coil option as there are D1 coils for it. This is due to a number of reasons, power compression, impedance rise or box rise etc., so that the coils rest below the stated resistance and with natural rise will be closer to stated resistance. (Alton's explaination is much better then mine: http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/60275-two-new-ssa-subs-showing-diffrent-ohms/page-3#entry1020077) For example, if you get a D4 ohm subwoofer from a different brand that uses 4.0 ohm Re, after natural rise it will be higher than a D4. One easy way to know for sure is on each former, above the coil should be written in black sharpie, stating the voice coil that is on the subwoofer. As it stands now, with everything written out by the customer as the facebook messages did not contain all of this info, we can only assume that the first Gcon was a D4 as ordered and the second Gcon was a D2 as ordered. This may be partially my mistake as I did not ask for a photo of the formers from the get go, but I have never had to do that before. If the customer truly is the first one with wrong voice coils, we will clearly correct it, but if the first one was read wrong..... Side note, with SSA store rewards, the total was $444, not $457.

From the email: I clicked on "unsubscribe" and a new page opened with "404 Not Found". I clicked on "contact" and a new page opened with "404 Not Found". What other avenue can I take to rid my email of monthly ssa junk mail?

This link works, than you. Now another issues, the captcha is so obscure that I can not get a correct entry! It is junk mail since I do not want it. Will you help resolve the captcha issue or is there another route I should take?

Exactly.

Yeah, maybe they could stack like 3or 4 ufo style motors on top of each other with a super long 6in coil to handle tons of heat and use a bicycle tire as the surround and maybe invent some sort of spiders that at the push of a button can change per user. ???

kicker so isn't what it once was.. lol like 5 years later