desertheat
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Nice suprise when I got back from my trip today, waiting for me was my new IDQV3 12's and XS65 components! SWEET. Better bet you will get a full review on them once installed.
I will start off with the IDQ's. Many of you know I have run IDMAX's in my show car for the last year or so. They were simply amazing! They were detailed, musical and could smash your face up into a huge smile output wise even sealed. To me, they were about as perfect as a 12 could get, and I have owned a lot of subs in my day.
So why on earth did I sell them off? Eh... Well I just do stupid crap like that. What can I say haha. I am on the 4th deck, 3rd set of subs, 3 sets of amps and 2 processors later in the car which I have had not even 2 years haha. I like change. The new IDQ's are said to have some nuts and also sound amazing.. well plenty loud for me anyways, are more sq oriented and weigh almost 10lbs per driver less than the idmax's. Now 20lbs does not sound like a lot of weight savings but when combined with the new enclosure I built that saved 34lbs, I just cut the @ss end weight of the car down by 54lbs. That is equal to approximatley 9 gallons of gasoline which varies from 5.8-6.5lbs per gallon. That is almost a full tank of gas difference in my ride! And when your into performance, that really is a huge decrease in weight.
Another aspect of the IDQ I liked was that I can totally take the sub apart for whatever reason I want. Weather it is to repair it if I happen to nuke one, want to paint the basket to match the car or whatever reason. Just a very cool design.
On to the IDQ. Build quality is great. The new composite basket saves weight, is functional and looks good. The basket has a good amount of venting for the coil as well. The magnet is much larger in diameter than the idmax but more shallow to focus the magnetic field more rather than try to spread it along the gap like an SPL driver. Overall the driver is very shallow compared to the evil tower of doom that is the idmax which is almost as tall as it is wide, so install of the IDQ is much more forgiving if your doing an infloor install like I have done. The max was so tall I almost could not fit it!
Grabbing the cone like I am not supposed to, but do anyways with drivers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif The suspension feels much softer than the max and is very linear tension wise. Definitly a different animal in this aspect.
Gasp, what is this? No vented pole? No way... Next thought is.. ok they had to do somthing to vent under the cap or I am goint to blow the cap right off of it. And they did just that in a much more functional way. Down around the spider are large holes in the cone itself. All these holes add up to a larger volume of airflow capability than just a single pole vent. So I thought to myself, wonder how the mechanical noise is on these as I cannot remember having a sub without a pole vent. I ran out to the car and hooked one up freeair and ran 15-25hz tones and got the driver moving. To my suprise I did not hear much at all from the sub mechanically while I was hammering away freeair. And wow could that cone move with nothing to compliment the suspension. More than I thought it would anyways and never hit bottom. I think if I pushed it a tad harder freeair she could hit bottom as there is no bump plate and it looks to have enough suspension to let the coil travel that far with ease. So the pole vent mystery was solved.
Ok enough of my babble, on with the pics....
I will start off with the IDQ's. Many of you know I have run IDMAX's in my show car for the last year or so. They were simply amazing! They were detailed, musical and could smash your face up into a huge smile output wise even sealed. To me, they were about as perfect as a 12 could get, and I have owned a lot of subs in my day.
So why on earth did I sell them off? Eh... Well I just do stupid crap like that. What can I say haha. I am on the 4th deck, 3rd set of subs, 3 sets of amps and 2 processors later in the car which I have had not even 2 years haha. I like change. The new IDQ's are said to have some nuts and also sound amazing.. well plenty loud for me anyways, are more sq oriented and weigh almost 10lbs per driver less than the idmax's. Now 20lbs does not sound like a lot of weight savings but when combined with the new enclosure I built that saved 34lbs, I just cut the @ss end weight of the car down by 54lbs. That is equal to approximatley 9 gallons of gasoline which varies from 5.8-6.5lbs per gallon. That is almost a full tank of gas difference in my ride! And when your into performance, that really is a huge decrease in weight.
Another aspect of the IDQ I liked was that I can totally take the sub apart for whatever reason I want. Weather it is to repair it if I happen to nuke one, want to paint the basket to match the car or whatever reason. Just a very cool design.
On to the IDQ. Build quality is great. The new composite basket saves weight, is functional and looks good. The basket has a good amount of venting for the coil as well. The magnet is much larger in diameter than the idmax but more shallow to focus the magnetic field more rather than try to spread it along the gap like an SPL driver. Overall the driver is very shallow compared to the evil tower of doom that is the idmax which is almost as tall as it is wide, so install of the IDQ is much more forgiving if your doing an infloor install like I have done. The max was so tall I almost could not fit it!
Grabbing the cone like I am not supposed to, but do anyways with drivers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif The suspension feels much softer than the max and is very linear tension wise. Definitly a different animal in this aspect.
Gasp, what is this? No vented pole? No way... Next thought is.. ok they had to do somthing to vent under the cap or I am goint to blow the cap right off of it. And they did just that in a much more functional way. Down around the spider are large holes in the cone itself. All these holes add up to a larger volume of airflow capability than just a single pole vent. So I thought to myself, wonder how the mechanical noise is on these as I cannot remember having a sub without a pole vent. I ran out to the car and hooked one up freeair and ran 15-25hz tones and got the driver moving. To my suprise I did not hear much at all from the sub mechanically while I was hammering away freeair. And wow could that cone move with nothing to compliment the suspension. More than I thought it would anyways and never hit bottom. I think if I pushed it a tad harder freeair she could hit bottom as there is no bump plate and it looks to have enough suspension to let the coil travel that far with ease. So the pole vent mystery was solved.
Ok enough of my babble, on with the pics....
