Kyle Richardson

These were taken about 12 hours after it was done.

Edited original post to add: Shipping information: These ship from zip code 98362 and the 12" driver weighs 38lbs while the 15" driver weighs 41lbs. You can go to UPS.com and calculate the estimated shipping costs (plus insurance) to your zip code pretty quickly. At these weights and with fuel at $3.00-$4.00 shipping is not cheap. Expect shipping to the East Coast to be in the $40-$50 range depending upon which driver and your exact location. West Coast shipping will be considerably cheaper since they ship from the West Coast.

The 12's would work better than the 15's since the 15's would need such a large enclosure. There are better drivers out there for T lines though if that is specifically what you wanted to do. That doesnt mean they wont work though!

Sorry Kyle, I thought maybe it was just the motor, as you had mentioned it was the Brahma motor, which I took quite literally. My apologies for the confusion. No problem at all! I just posted that in case others were wondering the exact same thing.

I'll be the first to admit that even with the discount my profits are slim to none and Kevin from DIY Cable is also moving these. Just trying to move these out and get the cash flowing.

I was asked by somebody if these are left over parts from Adire in an attempt to liquidate the parts. NO! that is definitely not the case and all parts are brand new. The build facility goofed and shipped the drivers before the goof on the parameters were discovered and instead of shipping them all back we decided to do this.

We had a slight goof on a production run which has a wee bit too stiff of a suspension for our original goals. Our choices are to send them back to the build-house and have them rebuilt or offer them at a blow-out price of $160 including shipping for those interested in an IB. My build-house is giving me a good break because it was their mistake. Compare this to the Dayton Audio IB Subwoofer @ $120 with less than half the available excursion (which you will need with an IB sub) and you will find this is an unbeatable value. These are based upon the Adire Audio Brahma motor so they have a healthy 26-27 x-max with the XBL^2 motor highly optimized in its fourth generation. These are all dual 8 Ohm VC so they would offer resistively damped operation if you needed it. They are stadard 12-spoke cast baskets with good parts. I intentionally made these non-flashy designs. They are directly out of the mold of the old Shiva/Tempest (which was our original design goal) which was all business and no goofy marketing gimicks. If you want fuzzy dice on your woofer these are not for you. T/S from a production sample broken-in for 3-4 hours at 50% excursion. Measurements are with VC in parallel. XJ-15 Parameters: Re: 3.95 ohm Qts: 0.578 Qes: 0.673 Qms: 4.095 Fs: 24.5hz mms: 130g cms: .300mm/N BL: 11 Vas: 284L Pmax: Lets say 600W which is conservative. If you thermally fry the thing your doing something very stupid. XJ-15 pictures: There are also XJ-12 12" models available! They have a highish Q of about .9 (system Q, not driver Qts) but in the car that would give you a lot of thump, essentially flat anechoic to 40Hz and with cabin gain that would be insane. Same motor, slightly different parameters. They also look good in 3.5ft^3 tuned to about 20Hz. They would be a good HT sub in that type of enclosure being essentially flat to 30Hz (anechoic) and fall off fairly quick below that point. In-room measurements as a typical company would post they would be good to under 20Hz flat in-room with some good HT excitement in the 30-60hz range. Parameters on the XJ-12 with VCs in parallel (dual 8s). Re: 3.95 fs: 31Hz Qms: 4.35 Qes: .67 Qts: .58 mms: 114g cms: .233 mm/N Vas: 83L BL: 11.4 Eff: 87.7db/1W/1M xmax: 26-27mm one way Pmax: Lets say 600W which is conservative. If you thermally fry the thing your doing something very stupid. Warranty: 1 yr Parts/Labor. Actually if we had a warranty item I'd just replace it or in this case give you credit towards another driver. Since there is a lot of craziness among the car audio crowd. You guys like to blow stuff up.... you know it.... I know it. Items covered/not covered: * A smoldering VC is not a warranty item. * A surround and spider riped from their landings is not a warranty item * A glue joint failure, where there is no damage to the surrounding cone, surround or spider IS a warranty item * anything obvious as a defect, magnet falls off, way off my listed parameters, VC scrapping etc... would be considered warranty. I'd take care of you 100% THERE IS PRETTY GOOD STOCK ON THESE UNITS >50 BUT THEY WONT LAST LONG. THE XJ-12 IS $155.00 INCLUDING SHIPPING IN THE LOWER U.S. AND THE XJ-15 IS $160.00 INCLUDING SHIPPING IN THE LOWER U.S. THESE ARE BASICALLY BRAHMA MOTORS FOR SHIVA PRICES! ALTHOUGH THEY USE XBL AND THE BRAHMA MOTOR THEY WERE NOT BUILT BY ADIRE AND WILL NOT BE SERVICED THROUGH ADIRE SO REST ASSURED. SINCE I DONT EXPECT THESE TO LAST LONG I'M NOT GOING TO PUT THEM ON THE SITE AND LET MY FORUM READERS TAKE ADVANTAGE. CALL ME AT 435-730-4967 AFTER 3:30 MOUNTAIN TIME TO ORDER OR E-MAIL SALES@ACOUSTIC-VISIONS WITH YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION AND I'LL CALL YOU. Of COURSE YOU CAN ORDER VIA PAYPAL ANYTIME AT [email protected] AND I'LL SEND YOU A PAYPAL BILL FOR THE SHIPPING AMOUNT WHEN THE EXACT AMOUNT IS KNOWN. YOU CAN ALSO IM ME ANYTIME: AIM: KYLER70 AND MSN: [email protected]

Bracing doesnt need to be elaborate, just something to tie all sides of the box together to help couple them together. Double baffle the driver baffle simply to help hold the weight of the 18" driver.

Glad you're happy with the subs and stay safe on the roads so you can enjoy them in the future! I'd try to throw some bracing in there if at all possible. Put a brace in the center of the enclosure between the drivers to help eliminate any flexing on the front baffle. Run this brace from the front to rear baffle and try to tie it to the top and bottom of the enclosure as well. Experiment with the amount of polyfill. The poly will smooth out the mid bass a bit and extend the frequency response a bit. Some people like this while others dont so thats why I always say to experiment. Start at 0 poly and you can work up to about 1lb of poly per cu ft of enclosure space.

Umm, confused here too.

Mike is officially labeled crazy!

Mike - you should be able to recoup most of the price paid for the Titanics if you sell them in the various audio forums. At least that would help with the migration over to the SS Premium drivers. The Premiums are a nice step up and should prove to be satisfying. Edit - Nevermind, I just read you post a few up from there and noticed you have sold the Titanics

The RL-P will work great for in home use and using the LT will give you a lot of flexibility to customize the roll off for your particular liking too. Since you're using an LT you can get away with a smaller enclosure than 80L too.

Given the same variables such as box size and wattage used the driver wouldnt know the difference between the car or home, however YOU will. The simple fact that the home will have a much larger room to fill will make it seem as though the sub isnt as loud which of course it isnt but you arent trying to hit 140 dB in a house either (at least I hope you arent)

Plus the fact that dual 2 ohm coils make it easy to hook up to a home system. Wire them in series for a 4 ohm load which just about every plate amp is designed to operate at.

I'll put the RL-i page up once the full inventory of 8's and 10's are in stock.

Chevy, which steel mill do you work at?

Hey guys I thought I'd drop in to say hi and thank Mike for offering his products. As some of you may or may not know, Acoustic Visions has been in business for almost 5 years so we arent a fly-by-night internet site and hopefully bring a good reputation to SoundSplinter. I mainly specialize in home audio but also dabble a bit in car audio as well. When I approached Mike I mentioned that I wanted the SoundSplinter drivers to gain a bit of exposure in the home audio market so that will be my main focus. If you want one of these drivers for car audio it would probably be best to contact Mike directly at SoundSplinter since he can probably give better advice for car audio applications, but if you are looking to add one of these drivers to a home system then I'd be more than happy to help out and answer any questions you may have. The prices at Acoustic Visions will be exactly what they are directly at SoundSplinter (after the price increase which he explained above) as to avoid any conflict with pricing wars. Shipping prices will also be exactly the same. Anyway, I'm quite excited to offer these products and if you have any questions about them please dont hesitate to contact Mike or myself and we'll do our best to help you out. Thanks, Kyle Richardson www.acoustic-visions.com