I listened to this baby a little bit this weekend, power from a sundown 1500d with gains set conservatively. It was in a .7 cube sealed box. My music ranged from the lighthearted banjo strings of folk music, the hardcore double bass drums of linkin park and disturbed. I also through in some lil jon to test the low end extension.

Notes:

With the folk music the sub stage blended nicely with the banjo strings in the front stage. It sounded very nice on this music. It very accurately reproduced anything it was asked to.

With the rock music i listened to, my favorite for daily listening personally, the bm suprised me with its output on this music. It was not muddled at all unlike many drivers asked to do this. I am considering putting a single 10 in my daily driver to replace the jbl 8 that is in there now. thats how much i liked this driver.

With the very light selection of rap music I played in this configuration the driver sounded as good as something can sound on rap, lets be honest 30-40hz sweeps/tones arent a true test of a drivers sound. I did find the driver struggling to produce notes below 35 hz. I believe this is due to the small sealed enclosure. This should easily be remedied with a ported alignment. My personal listening tastes prefer an exagerated low end which would explain my thoughts on this portion of the test. I'm sure that the average sq guru would have been appeased with the sound here.

SPL test and Ported box testing shall happen this week.

Good job Chad.

He will get all the bottom end he wants once he ports that sucker. That...and he's talking about sub 30's from our little guy in .7 cubes. Jake and I got good output from it down to the mid'ish 20's but our box was twice the size as Chad's.

Man, I may have to replace my current 12's with the new BM 12's when they come out, that is if they will require the same size box and port frequency.

Was that just paraphrasing his review? I would like to know what he is running in his front stage and HU.

No, that was his full review as of now. Chad is a ported box kind of guy, so his ported review should be a lot bigger.