BRAHMA 12 MKII, On it's way!!!

Unless i slept all day, and dreamed up todays events, he definately has the sub.. hehe

And now, time to highjack seths post!!!!!


Ran home today in a tizzy and decided to throw together an enclosure for my recently acquired 10w7. It was seeking a 2 cube enclosure considering my way below rms power (200wrms), but, a dumb cut about 4" short lead me to just go ahead and finish it up at 1.6 cubes. Whipped it up real quick, gave it a lil while to dry, and into the car it went. First off, mounting the woofer was fun. I dont know, there's just something about disassembling a woofer that gives me a woody.. :blush: OK, this woofer is easily louder than any woofer i've ever run, hands down, and with only 200wrms. Boston pro 10" with 600wrms, e12k with 400wrms, idq 12" with 400wrms, and umm, that about it. Next thing i noticed, it goes looooow. Again, the low frequency extension excels all my past woofers. A lil while ago i took it out for its first SQ run. Innitially, i thought it was a bit sluggish, but when i actually sat in to give it a real SQ test, it wasn't nearly as sluggish. Its pretty much what i look for in a woofer, with some extra qualities. Its aggressive, quick and deep. My type of woofer. Now im just tryin to figure what i have to look forward to when i get more power to feed it. I've changed my mind on the power im gonna run to it. I innitially planned around 800wrms, but i think i'm gonna go with no more than 600 in a slightly larger enclosure.

 

Pperhpas I missed someting....I dunno...

But why did you get a new sub? Something wrong with the other one? Or was this the second one that you were going to get? Since this is a different sub, wont you have to (or a least want to) get another one to they match and are the same sub since some of the specs appear to have changed?

Forgive me I have been somewhat out of the loop lately, been really busy down here. :bag:

 

Looks beastly... *drool*
Hopefully they used better glue on the spider this time.

 

Interesting!

Its good to hear that Adire is taking steps to fix their product, and it seems like they've made some serious improvements on it. I just wish they would have originally come out with this design. It just leaves a 'bad taste' in my mouth knowing that they had a driver with a few problems problems. (same goes with the Kodas and the ED As...Although I do put more faith in Adire than I do ED (at least I think)) :bye:

 

Hopefully I will be able to have the Brahma singing in my ear soon, preferably the mkII

 

Actually Adire is very quick to impliment changes. The Brahma changed quite a bit over the time it was out, even before the Mark II. It's just that they don't advertise the differences. The same goes for the Koda's. Talking directly to Adire, the actual number of Koda's with a problem are extremely small. But even still the came up with a solution to strengthen the glueing of the surround. This means that there shouldn't be any more problems, as long as people don't abuse their drivers by torking them down so tightly.

Adire tries to keep up with issues and concerns, and take action accordingly. As a dealer, I try to let them know my thoughts because I know their product will improve because of this. Although sometimes these changes take time. If it requires new tooling, or availability of a certain part at the build houses, this can delay the time that Adire can make the product better.

 

I suppose I could sorta put my comparison picture up.

Here's the old spider and tinsel leads (that camera needs glasses):


And here's sorta the new leads a spider:



And here's me having a little too much fun with Adire products:


My Sound Domain description:
"I noticed that the Koda mid could fit perfectly in the surround of the B10. I don't know why, but I took a picture of it and thought I would display it here. We'll say the Koda is the B10's clone, 1/4 the size. I call it.................................Mini-B"

At least I thought it was funny. :lmfao:

 

Maybe I should recomend this to Dan as the new dust cap for the Brahma:


Since some don't like the Brahma picture (I kinda do), I figured they wouldn't complain about that one. Plus it would give the Brahma an Fs of like 12 Hz. Wouldn't that be fun. :ss:

No problem. I was actually just venting with that PM. Have fun with the homework.

 

Thats what the koda looks like!? :jawdrop: Looks more like an 8" sub.

 

Fs down to 12Hz, eh?

Effiency will drop down to 50dB too!

 

The Koda is a little beast!!!

When we have the subwoofer gathering (Chris, feel free to shoot that GTi, and XXX10 down here :lol: ) we will post some pics of the Koda and the Vifa PL 7 incher as well. There will be a bunch of comparative pics of 10W7, Brahma 10, Flat K, IDQ, Brahma, Shiva, with those drivers and a few others hopefully for your enjoyment. [/b][/quote]
Actually, the one I'd rather send you is the Cyclone...
Too bad it's disassembled, wouldnt' even cost too much to ship (believe me, neither the GTi 12" nor the 55 pound 10" XXX would be cheap!), the Cyclone just doesn't weigh much.

But then again, it might just make everything else look bad.. I'd hate to rain on the parade.

 

Actually, the one I'd rather send you is the Cyclone...
Too bad it's disassembled, wouldnt' even cost too much to ship (believe me, neither the GTi 12" nor the 55 pound 10" XXX would be cheap!), the Cyclone just doesn't weigh much.

But then again, it might just make everything else look bad.. I'd hate to rain on the parade. [/b][/quote]
well send it on down here. Being a die hard PG fan, i'd love to see it. I say you put it together, i paypal you 20 bucks, and you send it on down.. Whatdya say?


And umm, can anything look better than the ED flat cone woofers.... :huh: :lmfao:

 

The Koda is a beast, but there are many drivers of the same size, or bigger. The DD drivers are a little larger, as are the ID drivers (slightly). I have several pictures on my web site you guys might like. One of them compares the ID drivers, Koda mids, and a/d/s/ mids. You can find them here.

 

Damn with all this talk abou thte cyclon I wish I wouldnt have passed up my chance to buy one! CRAP!

Well I suppose as people have said before I hear more about the net companies bc I am on the net which is why I hear more bad thingas about them....I think this is true to an extent but it seems like the smaller companies have flaws due to design where the othe rcomapnies are just simply gettin people frying subs for the most part. Its just as a consumer I get worried when I hear about subs failing due to manufactuer error...Its good they are getting fixed but it seems like all the bugs should be worked out before anyone ever get the subs.

Either way...Seth, your set up is one I want to hear. I want too impressed witht he As or Kodas in Steves (Krelkor) car, so maybe you can show me something I havent seen. I did like the shivas in my brother in laws truck as he did too...but I'd like to see what the brahama is about and maybe we can compare the adire products with the Utopias and the w7s....and cadances with the C2ks See if I really got what I paid for or just bought into hype Once mine is setup (who knows when) I see us getting together for a meet....even if I have to drive the whoel way