Aaron Clinton

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.

I had not heard of it either, thanks for the link as I was not sure what he was referring to when he posted it. More SSA people should join our G+ community.

But spend mucho on material, and apparently inconsistent quality. Prices spiked badly, hence the reason the BTL is not in production anymore.

Put in a smaller order at BB because TN stopped carrying a few things.

Yes. Doesn't hurt.

Thank you!

I was hoping SSA would make enough for me to finish mine. A few years later, the final degree is still unfinished.

Most expensive car is a cheap Audi.

Offer him $32After I get my check I plan to. No electronic shit. Just fire and sex. Is the 996 that vanilla ? I could almost afford that, payments of course.

I must not be American.

AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND I'm spooked on an A3 for another year. Thank you.I think it would be fun working on cars like that.Sure, for those of us with the time, space, money, tools, equipment, skills and spare car. I mean from a service point. It would help me understand why they do some of the crazy shit they do. Not sure if I would ever own something like that. I really love all that something like an A3 or RS6 have specs wise; manual/AWD/good power with huge potential/wagen/great handling/aftermarket parts etc. etc., but the cost to maintain, insure and in general own, is just out of the realm of what I am comfortable opening my wallet up to. So few wagens available with similar features. Pretty much leaves it to a Speed3/STI/A3/328i. C-class wagen is gone and was never offered in manual, E55AMG is $$$ and not manual and so on.You know, for years i've been trying to figure out why the Speed3/Focus/C30 has not received AWD. They've done it in EU (Focus) without adding cost, so why can't they do it here? Beats me, I hate torque steer.

AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND I'm spooked on an A3 for another year. Thank you. I think it would be fun working on cars like that. Sure, for those of us with the time, space, money, tools, equipment, skills and spare car. I mean from a service point. It would help me understand why they do some of the crazy shit they do. Not sure if I would ever own something like that. I really love all that something like an A3 or RS6 have specs wise; manual/AWD/good power with huge potential/wagen/great handling/aftermarket parts etc. etc., but the cost to maintain, insure and in general own, is just out of the realm of what I am comfortable opening my wallet up to. So few wagens available with similar features. Pretty much leaves it to a Speed3/STI/A3/328i. C-class wagen is gone and was never offered in manual, E55AMG is $$$ and not manual and so on.

I rev my V8 over 7 grand everytime I drive. Hell pretty much at every stop light. And no it doesn't sound as good, but it doesn't suckI rev my 2-rotor over 9 grand everytime I drive. No, not at every stop light and no it doesn't sound as good, but it still sounds great.

AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND I'm spooked on an A3 for another year. Thank you. I think it would be fun working on cars like that. Sure, for those of us with the time, space, money, tools, equipment, skills and spare car. ;)

Wow. Nice work.

Tweeted and G+'d.

Yes they are. But I am pretty sure Scott and Nick have something on the way. The Mayhem from AA and SP4's are also bonkers options too.

Cool set up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND I'm spooked on an A3 for another year. Thank you.

Ah yes, seriously bitten by the autocross bug Either these or a similar all black model.

Hope the little guy heals up.