Most Sub-Woofers have a reasonable lifespan, even after a lot of life shortening abuse I’ve seen Digital Designs Sub-Woofers still pound away where other Sub-Woofers would been burnt out and lifeless. This blog is about a coil/cone/basket replacement on a seven year old DD-3512-D2 Sub-Woofer that looks like it had lifetime of said abuse! You are most likely cringing at the sight of the ripped rubber on this old DD-3512-D2 Sub-Woofer, I remember when I first saw it I kept thinking “Wow, that’s had a hard life!”. Since the Cone and Dust-Cap were never going to be used again Ashley ‘MAD...
When it comes to SPL (Sound Pressure Level) results, anything over the 150dB mark is a phenomenal result no matter how you look at it and getting a result above 150dB requires a lot of time, testing and in some cases money. In most cases people go out and buy high-end Sub-Woofers designed for SPL that usually net good results but come at a high cost to your pocket! We at ABTEC set a little challenge to ourselves, this challenge was to prove that you can get results over the 150dB mark with Entry-Level Sub-Woofers! It took a lot of testing with different...
When it comes to clarity or Hi-Fi in car audio there isn’t much on the market that will match the Infinity Perfect 6.1 Components without almost doubling the price. When you remove the woofers out of the packaging you can tell the quality straight away just from the weight of the magnets and finish on the baskets, another great piece of detail is with the crossover you get three different dB settings for the tweeters depending on how bright you prefer them. Features: Power Handling, RMS: 100 Watts Power Handling, Peak: 400 Watts Frequency Response (±3dB):75Hz – 23kHz Sensitivity:...
In the last year a lot of Car Stereo Manufactures have stepped up to the plate and updated a lot of their current models and adding new features along the way. Pioneer have done this again but with their Entry Level Head-Unit, the DEH-155MPG is the replacement model for the DEH-1350MPG and with its subtle improvements makes it an excellent Entry Level Head-Unit! Like all Pioneer Head-Units the DEH-155MPG has beautiful sound even for an entry level unit. It has a 5-Band Equalizer for adjusting your cars acoustics to suit you and Pioneers Advanced Sound Retriever compensates for the frequencies that...
Last Saturday on the 13th of October ABTEC had yet another dB Drag Sound-off Event at its Lower Hutt Workshop. Due to the weather I did expect the turn-out to be on the lower side of things but was quite pleasantly surprised when it hit 2pm that the workshop started to fill up very quickly. With the Sound-Off being held on a Saturday instead of the usual Sunday, setting up the dB Drag Trailer and Workshop was a little more chaotic then usual due to the Workshop being open till the Sound-off started. Soon after 2pm most of the competitors had turned up...
The Sony XAV-701BT is the one of Sony’s latest double din head-units, with a 7″ touch screen and more features that you could shake a stick at makes for a very fun and versatile head-unit! My first impression was that it was a very sleek looking unit with a large screen and simple but functional buttons at the bottom of the screen. The sound quality of this unit is superb with its EQ7 7-Band Equalizer, S-MOSFET and 3 high power 5v Pre-outs. For the few weeks I was using the Sony XAV-701BT I ran 2 sets of DD-CS6.5 Components front and rear off the head-unit and 2...
Not everyone has the space or the money to have a multiple Sub-Woofer set-up in their daily driver so our friends at Digital Designs have come up with a solution for this problem. This solution is the DD-LE-MINI Series! As I already have a Digital Designs pre-made enclosure in the family car (DD-LE308) it only made sense to try out the DD-LE-MINI12 in it for a week or two and see how it compares. After installing it in the boot I noticed straight away how dominate the bass was and this was at low volume since I wanted to give it some...
Its not very often we do cone replacement’s on Digital Designs Sub-Woofers yet alone on a DD-Z18! So when Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell told me that he was going to cut up the DD-Z18 my heart nearly stopped, I had a head full of questions and starting ranting on like some sort of madman looking for any excuse for Ashley not to cut up the Z18. After what felt like a four hour conversation/debate Ashley convinced me that what he was going to do was for the greater good of the Z18 and reassured me that he hadn’t become a sick...
About two weeks ago I had a request for a Sub-Woofer box to be made for a Nissan Stagea, this seemed like a very easy request at the time until I had the measurements text messaged to me. Being one who likes a challenge I got right onto it, first ringing our box builder and seeing if he could work with the dimensions provided already knowing he would have a drawing right quick! Since the box profile could only be so tall the Sub-Woofer choice was quite slim, so after a few conversations the choice was a DD-512-D4. The DD-512-D4 is Digital Designs entry...
Not only have had the chance to drive around with the beautiful sounding but yet so brutal Digital Designs Z18 for over three months, but for the last two weeks I have had the Digital Designs Z12-D2 in ABTEC1 or my daily driver as I call it. You might recall me saying it is and was hard to go back to any other Sub-Woofer after running the Z18 and I can assure you I still feel very much that way! It has been quite a while since we had the Z18 in ABTEC1 and since then we have been looking...
