SSA "Fcon" prototype and SSA background.
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:56 pm
With stipud's suggestion, I am sharing a little of what we (SSA or Sound Solutions Audio) are working on. We, as a brand, are still very small in size and market share, but we are 100% full boar on growth of the brand. For the most part, our following is the Do-It-Yourself'er that is after something a little different and cares enough to do their research to find a better value. We are holding strong to our 'made in the USA' beliefs too. And to my fellow PG heads, we pose zero threat to PG business.
So in case anyone reading does not know, we have three existing lines:
>>> SSA Dcon: An over hung 2" copper D4/S4 coil, small enclosure needs, efficient, great value, sound quality biased sub woofer that can really surprise and is one of the last American made ones left in the segment. 300 watt ratting. Comes in 10"/12" with the 8" model planned and kind of on the way. There is a very nice review on here of one.
SSA "Fcon": (still in prototyping stages and name not official) Overhung, 3" copper D2/D4 coil, small to medium enclosure needs, efficient , high value, SQ leaning sub woofer that is planned to become the meat & potatoes of the line up. Planned 500-600 watt ratting. Meant to fill the big gap between the Dcon and Icon. The every man SQ sub, that has potential for great output while keeping composure. 10"/12" planned.
>>> SSA Icon: Our founding original driver, the one that we have built our brand on. It launched in 2007. A long 3" copper/aluminum D2/D1 coil driver, good excursion, mid - large enclosure size, 1000 watt rating, that is sound quality in primary intent and design, massive low end octave presence. Due to demands and slight generational tweaks over the years, it has been forced to become a little more abuse tolerant so it's output capabilities have stepped up along with thermal limits etc. (hence the addition of aluminum coil, sandwiched leads, upgraded spiders, single dish cone dust cap and so on. The heart and soul of our line up, and the benchmark of which we hold the rest of our speakers too. 10"/12"/15" models.
>>> SSA Xcon: The all out super sub. 3" very long aluminum D2/D1 coil, machined in shorting ring, 31mm Xmax goliath that is meant to be at the top of the heap of non competition drivers. Meaning not an SPL driver, but a purpose built sound quality focused driver that has huge Xmax and big power handling with excellent sound.
There are two more models planned, but I am not going to get into those at this time, as one may come out before the Fcon. Ok, so now that I got that sort of out of the way, here are a few photo's of the most recent "Fcon" prototype we are about to begin testing:
The motor is a little scratched up due to modifications and changes along the way, not to mention testing. This prototype has a hand wound 4 ohm SVC coil at the moment. Mark (the other 1/2 of SSA), will be doing his usually abuse testing on this prototype shortly. Followed up by my critical listening testing in a large number of 12" boxes. Just a tiny window into our recent goings on, there is so much more, but I can get into those at another time in another topic.
So in case anyone reading does not know, we have three existing lines:
>>> SSA Dcon: An over hung 2" copper D4/S4 coil, small enclosure needs, efficient, great value, sound quality biased sub woofer that can really surprise and is one of the last American made ones left in the segment. 300 watt ratting. Comes in 10"/12" with the 8" model planned and kind of on the way. There is a very nice review on here of one.
SSA "Fcon": (still in prototyping stages and name not official) Overhung, 3" copper D2/D4 coil, small to medium enclosure needs, efficient , high value, SQ leaning sub woofer that is planned to become the meat & potatoes of the line up. Planned 500-600 watt ratting. Meant to fill the big gap between the Dcon and Icon. The every man SQ sub, that has potential for great output while keeping composure. 10"/12" planned.
>>> SSA Icon: Our founding original driver, the one that we have built our brand on. It launched in 2007. A long 3" copper/aluminum D2/D1 coil driver, good excursion, mid - large enclosure size, 1000 watt rating, that is sound quality in primary intent and design, massive low end octave presence. Due to demands and slight generational tweaks over the years, it has been forced to become a little more abuse tolerant so it's output capabilities have stepped up along with thermal limits etc. (hence the addition of aluminum coil, sandwiched leads, upgraded spiders, single dish cone dust cap and so on. The heart and soul of our line up, and the benchmark of which we hold the rest of our speakers too. 10"/12"/15" models.
>>> SSA Xcon: The all out super sub. 3" very long aluminum D2/D1 coil, machined in shorting ring, 31mm Xmax goliath that is meant to be at the top of the heap of non competition drivers. Meaning not an SPL driver, but a purpose built sound quality focused driver that has huge Xmax and big power handling with excellent sound.
There are two more models planned, but I am not going to get into those at this time, as one may come out before the Fcon. Ok, so now that I got that sort of out of the way, here are a few photo's of the most recent "Fcon" prototype we are about to begin testing:
The motor is a little scratched up due to modifications and changes along the way, not to mention testing. This prototype has a hand wound 4 ohm SVC coil at the moment. Mark (the other 1/2 of SSA), will be doing his usually abuse testing on this prototype shortly. Followed up by my critical listening testing in a large number of 12" boxes. Just a tiny window into our recent goings on, there is so much more, but I can get into those at another time in another topic.
