Ascedant Audio Avalanche 10" build

XBL^2 utilizes a special coil and generally the coils are shorter than in other designs. If you want a standard driver get a standard driver, but back engineering XBL^2 is probably going to get you worse results by trying to combine a little bit of everything. Drivers are more than the sum of their parts, simply adding spiders, making coils longer, etc does not mean the driver will be better. Read about XBL^2 and you can see why messing with your coil length might be a bad idea. Unless your builder does some FEA and throw the thing on a klippel to test it out I highly doubt he's going to design anything better than what Dan already did with the avalanche. You could look at an Exodus Audio Tempest to figure out how to use a longer coil properly with XBL^2, but at that point you've done alot of work lol.
http://www.adireaudio.com/Files/XBL2DetailsPaper.pdf

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hey yeah i read that pdf a few weeks back thoroughly and clearly i would go with the shorter coil //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif i havent been able to find many vids of the exodus drivers other than their 18 and 21 but my issue is i want a 10" driver. i left a post on exodus's forum asking if they could sell the motor or possibly make a 10 " driver with the shiva/temptest/maelstrom etc x2 motor. doesnt seem like a largely sold driver and never see any used but its not a huge company which is understood. either way i wanna keep growing my audio collection =). do you guys believe box wise would 2cuft at 32hz would be good or if i went 25-28hz would be better. idc about BOOM i just want clean amazing lows but really not looking to go further than 2.5cuft. 2 or less would be ideal. the temptest uses a long vc? that due to the large top plate? ill see if i could get a motor at a reasonable price i could see possibly putting the aa ava motor aside for now either way they are both sexy and i want clean lowws i hope the ava motor will work out good right now i have a pierce audio wmd 10 which has a fs of somewhere in the high 30's i believe and it can hit lows pretty clean also the box i got is tuned at 40hz =/ which is one of the first things thats got to go too punchy for me

this motor (tumult) looks identical to the x2 motor. i wounder how similar they are

nvm lol read other posts they are basically the same thing with updated technology. ill see if the motor can be had if a 10 can be made than ava goes on the back burner

awesome =) good to hear. exodus only sells full subs no parts/motor. so idkk if i bought a 12" driver you think its possible to take off the basket and salvage the vc tinsels and spiders and recone it into a 10?

which brahma did u have?

Awesome //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif too bad u let em go. talked to psi, told me the avalanche is basically the same as a brahma mk1. they can take 15-1600wrms but not for long. ava was rated alot more conservatively and the brahma was realistic.