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Z v.3 production has not started yet. Design is largely complete, though. I am still playing around with the surround a bit.

The "X" line in larger sizes would fit the bill for a low-end monster... likely a few years out. In the mean-time the NS v.2 is a beast on the low-end with a high linear excursion to back it up.

Thanks !

Mike does it as a hobby -- he may be slammed @ work for a bit. I'll shoot him an e-mail to see if he has an ETA when he'll be available.

We've shipped out a ton of 1200s this week - it's probably on the way.

We will eventually have a full line of woofers -- just taking some time E Series -- 400 RMS SD-2 Series -- 500 RMS SA Series -- 600 RMS (for now; eventually v.2 model will climb to 750 RMS... that is a 2012 project) SAX Series --- 1000-1200 RMS (pending more testing; formerly just called X Series) Z v.3 Series --- 1500-1750 RMS NS v.2 Series -- 2000 RMS So six main lines... will be some specialty products in there as well (the X-8 style series).

I am working on a line for those with depth restrictions -- NOT a true shallow woofer but something that just isn't super deep as most of our drivers are big, nasty, deep woofers. The ultra-shallow market is not something we plan to get into but I thought something shallower than the SA line would be nice. Our future "E" series line with stamped frame was not designed as a reduced depth driver either so we would have left this market totally untouched. SD-2 10" -- 4 7/8" Depth SD-2 12" -- 5 3/8" Depth These will fit many under-seat truck enclosure applications. We had an SD-1 and SD-1 v.2 series some time back that were very popular in the truck market... so naturally these will be called SD-2 as the successor. The coil will be a 2.5" former with 30mm winding length combined with a 15mm top plate -- this gives us 12.0mm linear one-way travel and 22.5mm before coil leaves the gap. Dual-2 and Dual-4 options will be available with a rating of 500-watts RMS. We will have 25mm before anything bottoms out -- so a bit over double the linear travel before anything nasty happens. The cone, spider, and dust cap will be the same as our SA line -- very rugged parts. The latest SA series ventilation spacer will not be present on these models as it would add 0.4" of depth -- the frame will be a 4-spoke with vent holes liked the older SA series drivers. The coil ventilation will also be different from the SA line -- this I will just show when prototypes come in (have to leave some surprises). Pricing is pending but will be cheaper than the SA line, of course. I am pretty excited about this line all in all... I should have some samples in a month or so.

It's 2.0 DCR and was a bit warm from break-in when measured

Sample is due shortly -- takes a bit to arrive from our motor factory

It's definitely going to cost more -- power is climbing significantly.

Thanks to Ric @ Pulse Car Audio for doing the testing -- see the link to the Pulse section on SMD for more details and videos : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/108845-15-sundown-audio-sa15d2-tested/

When in stock our UK distributor can get any item we have. I will post up more information once samples arrive of the NS-1

I don't think you would ever reach the volume level we were at in a car in any situation and hence not the level of thermal stress; not to mention we drove the amp into clipping -- if you did I'd expect you to lose your hearing in a few days. We were measuring ~ 115 dB about 6 feet away; which at mid-range frequencies is quite damaging. Not to mention in your car you are much closer to the drivers. So... you could wire it either way. Of course when bridged you won't have stereo.

My ears are ringing from the pre-orders being tested *laughs* We'll have to test them on LPF or we'll all go deaf.

You will note the clamped power at 40-80 watts during the video -- so yah, they get loud without a ton of actual power. We had the speaker bridged on the amp @ 8 ohms.

Had a few people ask about x-max -- linear x-max by 70% BL is 5mm one-way (10mm p-p) with 12.5mm of total clearance allowed in the motor. The coil can move 11.5mm before exiting the gap so it has a bit of extra clearance in there. We played for quite some time on our 100.2 bridged on the 10" and had it smell hot and abused the heck out of it... could not thermal the 10" driver. When I cut it down the coil was mint -- so I am very pleased thermally. The 8" has a smaller coil which is why it is rated lower for reference. I'll get some more specs up once a few people get them installed The plan is to send them in for a better FR graph than what I have now as well done at am American facility.

That was actually for our old caps which has the support disc behind them -- we do it differently now

Quick video... my caption : "We also measured power to be between ~40 and 80 watts during the video... the camera microphone is distorted badly when close to the speaker so I backed up in the video so you can see distortion is quite low in reality; my hand-held camera simply doesn't have a great microphone on it. I was wearing ear-plugs in the video as it was so loud. Also -- we had no baffle on the driver so some cancellation is present -- on a baffle output will be greater. Obviously we will do more videos later... this one was just the first unit we took out of the box to mess with from production." I'll get to other questions later.

We had a bad tube of glue recently and a few caps came clean off like that until we figured it out -- "Amazing Goop" at Lowes in the small blue tube will fix it right up.

What model are they ? And which dust cap did they have (pic) ?

100-watts RMS 8s / $99 each from authorized dealer 200-watts RMS 10s / $115 each from authorized dealer Frequency range is ~80-5000 Hz on these -- the bottom end crossover point depends largely on how much power is ran to them. 8 ohm coils for large setups where you would be connecting 4 per channel to an SAX-125.2 or SAX-100.4 or 8 per channel on an SAX-200.4 These drivers are extremely light and relatively shallow so will fit in many locations easily and also will not weigh down doors with large quantities of drivers as bad as ferrite drivers. Standard Madisound grilles should fit them -- we will test it shortly.

Pre-order close -- speakers are here.

We had not planned to extend pre-ordering.

The fuses probably rattled loose a bit and got hot causing the plastic to melt.

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