Car Audio Sound System Secrets

Since we get a lot of questions regarding Car Audio Sound Systems Set-up’s we thought it would be a good idea to put up this basic guideline for you all to read through & also to shed some light on the subject at the same time… Use A Sound level Meter: If you are serious about Car Audio, use, borrow or buy a sound level meter. A sound level meter can save you lots of money in the long run. The reason for using a sound level meter is because once you have your system complete, it may take a big...

ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive Grand Final 2012 Update

Being the end of the year it was time for the ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive Grand Final. It had already been an interesting year for the Car-Audio/Sound-Off Scene with people continuing to beat their personal bests and a lot of these people had also been doing some very impressive upgrades to their systems. Which is always good to see since sometimes the smallest of upgrades can make a massive difference. As competitors turned up Darryl fired up the BBQ and as the next hour went on you could tell everyone had a good feed as we were...

Digital Designs DD-512-D4 Subwoofers Hit 154dB!!

Since the last dB Drag Event for the year has just past and we had a slight improvement with our results in ABTEC3 I thought I’d do a little Update… As a lot of you know or maybe not know (I can’t be to sure if this is or isn’t your first time to read my blogs) we at ABTEC have had a little project of getting Entry Level Sub-Woofers into 150+dB SPL range in our Toyota Vitz RS. It started with some Sony 10″ Sub-Woofers, then some JBL 12″ Sub-Woofers but then we ran with the DD-512-D4’s and to...

Santa Has Flown Into Lower Hutt Early @ ABTEC!!

Its that time of the year again, Christmas season is in full force again and all the masses are out and about doing their last minute shopping. So in the spirit of the silly season Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell went out and brought a Santa suit for one of us to dress up in… As you can see as soon as the Santa suit went on the camera came out and started shooting and everyone had a few laughs along the way. I think Santa is pointing out what he wants to give everyone for Christmas here! I’m not sure...

Pioneer DEH-X6550BT Product Review

As the year has been going by we have seen quite a few upgrades in Head-Unit models and with no exceptions when it come to Pioneer either, in the last couple month’s they have released over four NEW upgraded Head-Units including the DEH-4450BT being superseded by the NEW Pioneer DEH-X6550BT. The display is very functional and easy to read just like the DEH-4450BT was but this time round you have the option of changing both the display and key button illumination. With 210,000 x 210,000 colour combinations to choose from, it has to be more than enough colours for even the most...