Speaker Asylum: REVIEW: Eminence Kilomax Pro 15 Speakers by Sociofilth

Model:	Kilomax Pro 15
Category:	Speakers
Suggested Retail Price:	$359 ($203 @ partsexspress.com)
Description:	1000w RMS 15" sub heatsinked voice coil
Manufacturer URL:	Eminence
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Review by Sociofilth ( A ) on November 08, 2002 at 16:09:08
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As all of you hardcore audiophiles and DIY'ers (having disposable money or not) will undoubtedly know, as a general rule, why buy what you can build better? The answer is made painfully obvious by speaker manufacterers, such as Bose, making absolute crap and doing everything that they can to hide the quality of their product underneath the price. Any fool knows you can easily build a Home theater system fit for a god, with Focals and Leach super-amps for many times less than what you would pay retail for its equivalent. A perfect example are instrument speakers. Most brands (like crate and fender) offer poorly designed cabinets, claiming that over 5% THD adds character to their sound. The good stuff (as far as bass playing goes: Mesa-Boogie, AKG, et all) will cost you an arm and a leg. The Eminence Kilomax Pro 15A offers unheard of features at an affordable price. This speaker has a 1000w RMS rating at 8 ohms or 4 ohms (the 4 ohm model available in the UK only or by special order). The massive 4" ultra-conductive copper voice coil is attatched to a 4" alloy heatsink that covers the dustcap area. Although the usable bandwidth is moderately small (only 35Hz to 1.5kHz), the kilomax has tested at my house to generate frequencies of about 15-20 Hz with very little overall THD. The speaker cone itself arrives from the factory absolutely flawless, seemless, and beautiful. It's made of some sort of very thick paper composite, but don't let that get you down! Any other material would tear like the "Brand X" paper towel in the commercials. The surround is a cloth composite that is treated with fancy chemicals to offer added life, durrability, and rigidity without affecting the speaker's performance. The frame is made from a lightweight cast aluminum, and the former is made of kapton. But all of this absolutely shrinks in comparrisson to the massize 109 oz magnet that helps to drive this absolute beast of a speaker. But how does it perform? Like a dream! The Kilomax can easily AND I MEAN WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT replace any 4x10, 4x15, or 2x18 cab you can find! But, good luck finding any comparable cab that doesn't use Eminence. This speaker will shake down your house and induce heart palipations. It can and will beat out any other esoteric sub on the market! I hope this review helps.

Product Weakness: None that I can see except that it's damn heavy, but that's part of what makes it so powerful.
Product Strengths: Extremely durable, well crafted, well designed, and POWERFUL!
It even comes with a nifty little blue sticker to show the world you've got eminence inside!

Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier:	Kustom 200 Bass Amp
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated):	Integrated
Sources (CDP/Turntable):	Carvin LB76F six string fretless 9v active bass
Speakers:	NA
Cables/Interconnects:	standard sheilded bass guitar cables
Music Used (Genre/Selections):	Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Rock, (Primus, Victor Wooten, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Les Claypool, Cowboy Bebop, Yoko Kano)
Room Comments/Treatments:	my bedroom,
Time Period/Length of Audition:	winning driver in "Prove it all night" gear awards
Other (Power Conditioner etc.):	Crybaby, Electro Harmonics "Q-Tron Plus"
Type of Audition/Review:	Product Owner
Your System (if other than home audition):	NA

Product Weakness:	None that I can see except that it's damn heavy, but that's part of what makes it so powerful.
Product Strengths:	Extremely durable, well crafted, well designed, and POWERFUL! It even comes with a nifty little blue sticker to show the world you've got eminence inside!