8's??

[Jh8909 10+ year member]

yall forgot about my 8 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif, well its not mine anymore as of today //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

shipped it out to some special person on here today, and they're gonna have a nice Christmas gift //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

Old School RF HX2 8" were BAAAD AZZ, I have my three little 1008 DD's, hope they do ok //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

Not many SA-8s fail under appropriate circumstances -- correct box and reasonable power. If the do fail and were installed correctly we have replaced them for customers -- obviously nothing is perfect and you get failures occasionally.

The majority of what we get back have the leads burnt up from excessive power / excursion (wrong box). We have received none with thermally burnt coils.

Of course we have also continually improved them (3 progressive revisions so far) -- the latest run of SA-8s feature a more rugged spider and 50% larger lead wires. So far haven't seen any of these back for any reason.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Lots of solid 8's out there.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Not many SA-8s fail under appropriate circumstances -- correct box and reasonable power. If the do fail and were installed correctly we have replaced them for customers -- obviously nothing is perfect and you get failures occasionally.
The majority of what we get back have the leads burnt up from excessive power / excursion (wrong box). We have received none with thermally burnt coils.

Of course we have also continually improved them (3 progressive revisions so far) -- the latest run of SA-8s feature a more rugged spider and 50% larger lead wires. So far haven't seen any of these back for any reason.

Good news Jacob. You continue to be an active owner and improve your products when needed. I wish more companies took this approach.

 

[NikonD3 10+ year member]

DD 1508 FTMFW and I have one for sale Pm for a sick price... But yeah DD 1508 or Call Rusty and try his new DC Lvl 2 8" woofer heard it gets down Crasssyyy

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

Good news Jacob. You continue to be an active owner and improve your products when needed. I wish more companies took this approach.

Thanks -- been working hard on it... the SA-8 has been a really interesting project to say the least //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif We have improved the current SA-8 quite a bit, IMO... I am also developing the SA-8 v.2 as well to be introduced midway through next year.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

heard it gets down Crasssyyy

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Like brassy, but with a C?

 

[brirat 10+ year member]

Holiday greetings. Have some Audiopulse Epic 8" dual 4 ohm subs if interested. Cheers.

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

audioque doesnt make 8's...

Never said they did//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

The used to make the SD8, back when they had 3 woofer lines and offered better subs, in my opinion...but there's no stock SDC8's unless the guy had one and reconed it to an 8"er.

Winner, it was custom

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

Not to be a dick Jacob, but something puzzles me. One thing I have noticed about Sundown is all of the versions of equipment. Why not spend more time on R&D and make things the best they can be the first time????

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

Not to be a dick Jacob, but something puzzles me. One thing I have noticed about Sundown is all of the versions of equipment. Why not spend more time on R&D and make things the best they can be the first time????

Rather than answer that directly out of the gate... let me ask you are a couple of questions since you are puzzled...

Why didn't Henry Ford release the 2011 Ford Taurus to begin with ? Was it because he didn't spend enough time on R&D ?

Why didn't JL Audio release the W7 in 1990 ? Was it because they didn't spend enough time on R&D ?

Fact is... without putting your best effort at a product out there and getting feedback and real world observations from customers there is no starting point. I could spend 10 years designing a speaker in-house, start shipping it to customers, and find out that it still needs some tweaks.

For that matter... many of the tweaks I implement for Sundown are simply improvements that I want that I didn't think of immediately -- and I certainly won't wait until the next model year to implement a new idea if it can be beneficial. Do the improvements represent a flaw in the original product ? No, they do not, but they do make it an even better product (eg: New spacer rings and pole design for SA series just implemented). Unless you are totally against improvements, of course.

Basically your inquiry assumes it's even possible to make a perfect product... why are there new versions of anything at all for that matter ?

The difference with me is that I am open about updates, I tell people about them, and implement them right away. Every company in every business updates products but many wait for model year changes... I do not.

 

[Mitch86 5,000+ posts]

Not to be a dick Jacob, but something puzzles me. One thing I have noticed about Sundown is all of the versions of equipment. Why not spend more time on R&D and make things the best they can be the first time????

That was a stupid question....lol

 

[CL1CKCLACK 5,000+ posts]

Rather than answer that directly out of the gate... let me ask you are a couple of questions since you are puzzled...
Why didn't Henry Ford release the 2011 Ford Taurus to begin with ? Was it because he didn't spend enough time on R&D ?

Why didn't JL Audio release the W7 in 1990 ? Was it because they didn't spend enough time on R&D ?

Fact is... without putting your best effort at a product out there and getting feedback and real world observations from customers there is no starting point. I could spend 10 years designing a speaker in-house, start shipping it to customers, and find out that it still needs some tweaks.

For that matter... many of the tweaks I implement for Sundown are simply improvements that I want that I didn't think of immediately -- and I certainly won't wait until the next model year to implement a new idea if it can be beneficial. Do the improvements represent a flaw in the original product ? No, they do not, but they do make it an even better product (eg: New spacer rings and pole design for SA series just implemented). Unless you are totally against improvements, of course.

Basically your inquiry assumes it's even possible to make a perfect product... why are there new versions of anything at all for that matter ?

The difference with me is that I am open about updates, I tell people about them, and implement them right away. Every company in every business updates products but many wait for model year changes... I do not.

you tell em jacob! noob obviously doesnt know much bout running a company