Aaron Clinton

That is great to hear. The Zcon is a very specific kind of sub, but it is cool to see the amount people using them in musical installs.

The 15's will be coming down the pipe as funding allows. I try to do some news updates for SSA on our occasional Instagram live that we do from time to time.

Its a slow process as this transition is a hard one and takes a great deal of up front capital to achieve, hence the speed and number of models being changed over at once.

Steady state cardio is difficult if you are not motivated and don't have loads of time. Lately, I've been mostly Keto food wise and I have slipped below 200 for the first time in 20 years.

I'd check out that fried chicken place. Hell, I'd love a tour of the city when I have time and money to burn. So... will you be busy in about 25 years?

That would be what is causing the issues when you open the door. I usually don't suggest over 16 square inches of port per cube with the Zcon's. You could always reduce port are if you want or just be easy when you open the doors haha.

Nice numbers for sure. How much port area per cube do you have?

Listening to that made me ultra hungry.

Great choice. Now only if we could build our own version of the AG650.

Love the colors.

I will say more when closer and all details finalized, but simply my goal was to improve on the Gcon. Well, that is not quite what happened. As I believe it was @altoncustomtech who figured out early on that the previous Gcon was a different take on the original Icon. It was essentially a 90% Gen 1 Icon, just with a different name, keeping in mind our last Icon was about a 150% Gen 1 Icon. That being said, the Gcon was one of our all time best selling subs as it sat right in the sweet spot of performance and price and that people really just loved it, it was a perfect pairing to the Icon at the time and had a great run. a very straight forward design that landed just right. Sadly, we didn't make profit off of the Gcon. It was a break even effort at best. Many who have not run a business don't realize how much is taken out of a mark up on a product when it comes to shipping, taxes, fees, materials, overhead, customer service, marketing, monthly expenses just to keep the websites running, in addition to all the fees taken from each order for transactions etc. etc. No one really knew, but all this time the Gcon (and Dcon for that matter) were kind of a labor of love. We held on to both models here in the USA as long as we could. We were very lucky to have that level of subwoofer still made in the USA. But sadly, it was a poor money move to keep the Dcon and Gcon made in the USA. The market is in a massive race to zero and too many people who have no real background in audio, or experience in it, or have any respect for it, and are seeing it as a quick money opportunity. I just deleted a long rant, but the race to zero is responsible for the downturn in the USA production, which effectively put an end to the Dcon, Gcon, and... well.... Each one of these models you become attached to as they have been apart of your life for a long time and they start to feel like players on my soccer teams I coach. It's very tough to lose one. Again, I have rambled on too much. Back on point, the goal was to build upon the much loved Gcon and make it be a smart business move for once. As I said above, that is not quite what happened. The pile of missed on prototypes at my place is getting nuts, and no, not selling them. Anyway, on paper and by ear, prototyping started out ok. Wasn't super happy with the low end extension and it was missing that warmth and smoothness across the range that has always been a signature to our subs (including the little brute F8L). But wow, did that one peak so much harder than planned, if I was ever to go back and do a modestly priced numbers sub that can play daily, I have one in the kitty. Moving on, a few parts changed, motor design changed, coil adjustments etc. Didn't like the specs. Got some outside help from an ole friend in VA who has had a long history with us and built a lot of our stuff, and things changed again. Motor really gained some size, surround larger, different cooling, longer coil. I am sure you can gather by now what had happened. All the while my goal was to remake and release a Gcon replacement. This had surpassed that somewhere in the middle of the process as I think I got a little carried away. As we have been running with this alphanumeric system of naming (outside of the Evil of course), and I felt it had gone well past the "G" slot in the line up. So "H" names started getting tossed around, my favorite was Hades (greek mythology, god of the underworld, from the depths below, riches from the soil, also called Pluto (my pups name)), this thing is a stout 3" coil sub, 12-spoke etc. all traits shared with Gcon and Icon for example, so you can see how fitting the Hades name is, we also considered putting it in the F8L line, but it just doesn't fit and is not related to the F8L at all. It was some work to launch a new model name in the F8L, luckily the name was just right and people have loved it right from the get go. (More are on the way before anyone asks). While all of this was happening, we held out hope for another missing model to return made here in the USA. After a long lay off of production of subwoofers when at one time, we only had the F8L available (very scary to think about looking back), the Xcon, Zcon, Evil were all overhauled and a new halo sub was introduced, the Team Evil. I am sure, based on the sheer amount of questions I continue to get, that many have noticed the Icon didn't return with its bigger brothers. During this time, there was a little effort to try to redesign the Icon to build upon the existing model while still being an Icon and still making it worth the time for both us and our build house. When I was just out at CES, I spent some time at our build house and tried to hash out a feasible option to make the Icon work here in the USA. No luck. With the capabilities of the build house and the money we don't have, it was looking not so good. With my internal designation of "Gcon replacement" (ala Porsche 996, and knowing it couldn't be called Gcon due to so many changes), we decided to award this with the SSA Icon name! Our longest running model name, 11 years now. I could not let the Icon go away, it is a fixture of SSA and has been the heart of the line up since day 1. What we have in production now is a very stout, heavy abuse tested, smooth response, warm low end sub that takes rated power with great ease. I prefers slightly smaller boxes than that of the older versions, in addition it is a pinch more numbers friendly. We are keeping the rating at 1250w rms. If you want an easy way to get to know this new model, think of it as a slightly smaller version of the NEW Xcon, more so than a tuned up older Icon. As for my comment above about merging two model lines, well, that might be confusing. The internal designation of Dcon replacement had a similar road. But, I think it will possibly be the merging of what was the Dcon and Gcon slots, but we will see. I will get more into that later, as the prototyping stage is done, now it is onto get the funding. I do apologize for not releasing more info sooner, but so much was influx and impossible to give concrete news until now and I have so many projects in the works at once. Due to funding limitations, the Icon is returning in a 12" size first, then followed by 10's and 15's depending on demand and funding. Hopefully that all makes sense and is good news.

Slight twist in the overall planning. We were so impressed with the end result, we might be merging two model lines and moving to very competitive pricing.

Snowing here on and off, nothing is sticking. New alt going in Lindsey's car this weekend. :)

Production is almost complete, box design should be done today. Working on finalizing everything.

My Orphan 8 is still in use daily for the small 2.1 set up I have at the house.

That would be sweet.

Such a cool build.

This build could get nuts.

The mids are available in 8 ohm.

For 5 channel amps, if you haven't ordered one already, check out these: http://store.soundsolutionsaudio.com/products/nvx-audio-jad900-5-amplifier.html http://store.soundsolutionsaudio.com/products/orion-cobalt-cb2700-5-class-d-1-ohm-5-channel-amp-2700-watts-5400-watts-max.html http://store.soundsolutionsaudio.com/products/sundown-audio-sae-1100-5-5-channel-full-range-class-a-b-amplifier.html

Another tiny forum upgrade/update.

We should be caught up on a ton of SoundQubed orders today or tomorrow.

Sorry for any trouble, as stated above, we were away at CES and rushing to catch back up as it is hard to stay on top of emails and orders while away at that kind of show. I replied to your emails and I believe Josh tried calling you the day or day after you ordered. Anyway, all is well, as we should have tracking for you later today. I am here with any questions I can help with.

Here are your machines: http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=hostbycpid&cpid=f6c61de21c94136744e443096341116c http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=hostbycpid&cpid=af2ad8f3d843c99781fe2ec3112a60b9 There are major announcements for primes or gravitational waves etc, but I am not seeing anything directly related to any machines of ours. Which ones are you getting errors on and which ? Some of the heavy memory work units, like from Cosmo and NFS can be tricky, but good credit return. Einstein has a load of different type of work units, as well as Prime Grid, both with strong credit return. I really appreciate all the crunching power you have donated. If it is of any bother, there are some projects that are good for a set-it-and-forget-it kind of crunching. The last week or so at my new jerb, I have had the i5+Gti 1050 full wang chung on Milkyway, Einstein, and some SETI/Leiden. It is killing it on PrimeGrid and MW.

Looking good!