Acoustic Elegance AV15

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

This is a 15" D2 AV15 from AE based out of Green Bay. All parts are tooled in the US and assembled in Green Bay, WI.

My initial reaction to seeing this sub was, oh ok a SQ sub rated for 1000wrms, should sound nice but get warm fast and not handle the power I plan to really throw at it. Specially all on a little 2.5 with small windings, boy was I wrong. John personally came with a few of the toys and more or less let me just beat on them. We did several tests and put about 4 hours of abuse on the sub.

Never reached failure point, the only thing I could note is that the sub did smell of coil glue at 75hz with an estimate of 1500wrms to it. Ironically almost any sub I test will get a little stinky when trying to hit that tone with 150% of its rated power.

Photobucket is being extra slow tonight but I will post them as they load, heres the first one, just a teaser

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[microhaxo 10+ year member]

Nice, cant wait for more.

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

I want one.

I wonder if John gives tours, I live pretty close.

 

[LDW3RD 10+ year member]

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thanks man keep up the good work.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

Heres the little SQ monster

Single nomex spider, 2.5" VC

Yummy cone

Theres the little coil

 

[mazzasec 5,000+ posts]

Nice looking sub //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

Hope ya guys are ready for this, btw ignore the score on the right of the screen that was an outlaw score simply for me to see what else it could do.

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

Lol at johns comments on the short vid..

No need to worry john //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

that was me... thank you very much lol

john was in the truck turning it up

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

Oh, lol You sound very similar to him.

 

[kendogg 10+ year member]

We know the driver was an absolute low-end monster, there's no denying that. 146 at 30 Hz doens't surprise me a bit. How about in the 60Hz+ region??

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

We ran a 50sec tone that every second went up 1hz starting at 70hz and ending at 75hz. Obviously cause my car peaks in the high 30s the numbers were not going to be as high but man that thing still gets loud. I got some pictures and i think a video of it as well, uploading it all right now. I want to say it was mid 130s at 70hz. For a box that peaks at 37hz though thats impressive imo.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

Someone was curious if they could handle the power for more then just a burp, even though I didnt really do burps, heres a 30 second bassrace session average. John is kind of new to bassrace so we just had him turn it up a bit, didnt actually go for a 39.9 or anything like that but you get the idea.

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

So how did it sound musically? This may sound a bit stupid but aside from chasing DB's what did you think of it in terms of sound quality?

 

[kendogg 10+ year member]

So how did it sound musically? This may sound a bit stupid but aside from chasing DB's what did you think of it in terms of sound quality?

The AV is incredibly accurate. As much hating as I do on the AV's, and as much as I feel like John dicked me over after my ordeal with mine, it's one of the most (if not the most) transient, accurate subs I've ever heard.