EL OH EL you sure you didnt have a ib3?
And its been said before, lack of motor strength from a 2.5" coil on a 18" cone isnt practical. Plus the sa line is probably the most popular line sundown has for dealer sales (guess). And most people who go to dealers arent looking for 18s.
I have had a huge "crush" on sundown since fox_racin4 has been getting his stuff shipped to me lol. Cant wait for the new lines and new things happening this year
The SA line is the most popular, but I am betting the E line will take over. If the 18s were produced, they would sell, Period. Online sales is the majority of Sundown sales anyways. An 18" sub in a vehicle isn't really practical in the first damn place. I would not run an SA18 in my car, but I still want to see it made... damn obsidian
My comment holds true on the Fi. An SA has a bigger motor than the ssd... Huge Pole vent... lol...
The cooling is so shitty that one of my buddies younger brothers burnt a 3" flatwound coil with nothing more than a short run of unfused 8 guage and a 500 watt rms amp in a pickup truck. He didn't burn it all the way though... he didn't have a chance... he suffered from that famous las vegas tinsel design after a few months. Switched to a measly SA and it is louder and not burnt at all. Sub is like new.
Actually... online sales are no longer our primary source of sales; we did start online and I still make every effort to support our "roots" by staying on top of the forums. But dealer sales have catapaulted ahead in the last year and a half It was a battle that literally took YEARS but we are making serious inroads into dealers -- hence the E series debut in full force of all sizes (fastest pick-up in sales of any line we've ever introduced).
In the dealer market we really have no call for an SA-18 design -- we WILL do an X-18 which will be priced in the 300s from a dealer and be a SERIOUS woofer... I am talking 10" spider, 3" coil, etc. I am tooling a 10" spider adapter for the 18" 6-spoke that will be used on the X, Z, and NS lines. The rest of the X line will use our newly tooled frames -- as will the Z and NS lines when the frames are done.