Adire Audio

Our power recomendations are on how much the sub can take, but doesn't necessarily mean you have to provide that exact amount.  You would be surprised at how loud the sub will get on even half the recomended power.  For that enclosure, I wouldn't recomend much over about 1000-1200 watts. 

BTW, our rating is thermal only and complies with the home audio standard.  We sell in both car and home markets, so it is easier on everyone for us to just rate based on those standards.  This helps the customer know that we aren't fudging our ratings.

Also, you will be most impressed with those Sub Zero enclosures.  I personally don't like pre-fab enclosures much, but those are definitely the exception. 

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio

I think i'll go sealed though....just to give it a shot.  Besides, sealed enclosures are smaller too. 

Sorry.  I went out of town to visit the parents for the holliday.  I just got back in.

I guess I should have been more clear.  Home audio has certain standards the equipment must comply to.  This makes sure that when you see a power rating for two different amplifiers, they are rated the same way (same distortion level, and for a given amount of time).  Car audio isn't regulated like this, and that is why you see some cheap brands with some pretty crazy ratings on their equipment.  Our subs are rated per IEC 268-5 which means that they handled that much power for a given amount of time at a certain frequency.  However, it isn't an actual power handling spec as that changes with different enclosures.  In a small enclosure the Brahma can handle 2000 watts without a problem.  But in a larger enclosure you can break it with 700 watts.  This is true with all speakers.

 That is 100-1200 watts period.  The sub doesn't care what impedance it is wired to.  It just cares about how much power it is seeing.  It is the amplifier that will care about the impedance as it will usually put out different power levels at different impedances.  This is because of ohms law.  If you drop the resistance, voltage will increase and therefore power will increase (up to the voltage rails that is).  The Brahma's have dual 2 ohm voice coils. 

Right now we are going through some changes.  This means that unless our dealers bought up a good stock of Brahma's, they will be out.  We have several online dealers that you could contact.  Try http://www.sound-foundations.us/, http://www.acoustic-visions.com/, www.visionaryaudio.com, and www.creativesound.ca.  They are our online dealers and may have them in stock.

We are continuing to sell the Koda line, as well as the Brahma's.  We are just increasing our line by 500% next year.  Unfortunately that's all I can say at this time.

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio

This depends on the tuning and size of the enclosure.  You can have fantastic SQ with a ported enclosure, and horrible SQ with a wrong size sealed enclosure.  The Brahma's have a huge advantage though as they use our XBL^2 motor.  This motor greatly reduces distortion over other standard motor topologies.  This means it will sound much better than those other subs.  You really have to hear it. 

In fact, we have an audio file on our site of two speakers playing the same tones.  One uses our XBL^2 motor while the other uses an underhung motor (better than the overhung motor in terms of linearity, but still not as good as ours).  You can audibly hear the difference in distortion.  Here's the underhung file: http://www.adireaudio.com/Files/Dan/UH-IMD-Test.wav  And here's the XBL^2 file: http://www.adireaudio.com/Files/Dan/XBL-IMD-Test.wav

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio