Idmax 10s and SI BM 10s

[blakflash 10+ year member]

I'm trying to find out what I can expect between running a pair of SI vs the IDmax v3.

I have no experience with either one of them.

Someone is offering me a custom reconed version of the BMS but I'm not sure if the output would be where I want them to be as far as spl is concerned. I know the are sq subs so...

Would the Bms at least be louder than the IDq v3s

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[blakflash 10+ year member]

Oh i forgot to mention. I will be running them off about 600-800 watts. Unfortunatley I already had the box built for the IDMax/q but looking at the reccommended box specs they are very close to the same...

 

[will3 10+ year member]

SI makes a great product , but I would prefer the IDMAX over the BM, just my opinion, but I would think a BM and the IDQ would be similar in output , or at least marginal in difference between the two in equal installs.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[blakflash 10+ year member]

yeah i really want to try the idmaxs but can't find any in my price range.

the bms i was told was a custom recone by jacob fuller.. I have no idea who that is but from the looks of it the output should be a little greater. It's 175 shipped for the BMs.. so..

 

[blakflash 10+ year member]

this is an excerpt from his post:

"Product:

Pair of Custom re-coned Stereo Integrity Baby Mags. These are the Jacob Fuller versions.

2. Specs:

1) Slightly longer flat-wound coil (original was round wire) - USA made coils

2) Narrower / Taller Surround

3) Tied down tinsel leads

Measured T/S Specs (coils in series):

RE: 6.89 ohms

Z: 8 ohms

Fs: 27.2 Hz

Qes: 0.56

Qms: 3.32

Qts: 0.48

Le: 2.8 mH

Vas: 31.1 L

BL: 16.2 NA

Mms: 124 grams

Power: 400 watts RMS

0.95 ft^3 SEALED BOX - F3 of 41 Hz

1.5 ft^3 ported tuned to 30 - 35 Hz for high output"

I'm being asked 175 shipped for them. I really want to try the idmax myself but the cheapest i found them is 500 for a pair but on top of that i'd probably have to buy another amp for them.

 

[kevin lu 10+ year member]

i am running 2 12 IDQv.3 right now and they sound better than my 2 12 JLw6v2 in the past, no sloppy at all and JL is sloppy sometime.

 

[blakflash 10+ year member]

have you ever heard any of SIs subs though?

i've heard the idq v3 12s but they were the store demos and they were sealed.

 

[Hoodlum007 10+ year member]

I have not heard the SI'd but i own ID subs and they are honestly the cleanest hitting subs i have ever owned. I have had JL, MTX, Kicker, Alumapro, TC sounds, RE, Eclipse and the list goes on.

 

[statonburrell 10+ year member]

jacob fuller is the owner of sundown audio.

 

[blakflash 10+ year member]

ahh ok so it's safe to assume he'd know what he was doing. I've have red that the si mags had considerably more output than the idmax but it was older model max.

Well i guess i should make a comparison to what i have heard.

I've had an older RD elite 12 ported on 800 rms

3 RD alpha 15s the older model sealed on two 1750s

an RE SE 10 07 model ported on 400 rms

an MTX 9515 the first model ported on about 1200 rms

ive heard two cvr 10s

two older model rd classics

and right now i'm running 2 american bass dx 10s on a box built for idmax 10s on about 400-500 rms

I'm looking for something louder and as clean as anything I have up there except the alpha's lol

 

[okiedokie 10+ year member]

ID is the way to go

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

Would the Bms at least be louder than the IDq v3s

if your asking which sub is louder, go with something else. getting some nice sq based drivers and trying to make them loud ist how you want to go about it. but then again it has been done. but its all about the install. dont fret over a small decision so much, focus on the build.

 

[blakflash 10+ year member]

it's not that i want loud loud i just want the louder of the sq subs. I would go with something else if i was juts looking for loud but been there done that. And I got an audiophiles ear unfortunately which makes me somewhat of an oddball in the area i'm in now.... Well I guess I already was because I don't get jl, fosgate, kicker and any other big box stuff anymore

 

[got-one-eight 10+ year member]

Love my IDmax but cant complain about the W7 I owned previously. Both sound great.

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

ha, all ya had to do was ask and i would of told you who Jacob is. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif