As a lot of you out there would know by now, I am usually ABTEC’s guinea pig when it comes to trying out Digital Designs Subwoofers. I have to admit this is my favourite of my job (if you can call it work when you love what you do) considering not only do I usually get to hear them before anybody else but also get to daily them for some time. This time I wasn’t the first in New Zealand to hear the NEW Digital Designs 9900 Series, that honour went to Tom Mangu as the photo’s on Digital Designs...
A lot of people spend a massive amount of time and money building their Car Audio Systems to get the perfect (perfection is really subjective though) sound only to find a new rattle when upgrading to bigger/better equipment. I personally have come across this issue myself in several cars I have owned, on some cars it was just a minor bit of road noise and slight number plate rattles but since my systems have gotten bigger the rattles grew and so did the annoyances of it! There are three main uses for Sound Deadening, these three uses are: Increasing Sound...
By now a lot of your are aware that we have now established ourselves at our NEW location at 49 Hutt Road, Petone, Lower Hutt. Some people still haven’t since I still get phone calls in regards to the old location. This is just a small update to let everybody know where we are now located and what the team has been up to of late! Our commitment to you … Our aim, very simply, is to satisfy all our customers so they will want to choose us again and maybe even recommend us to their friends. We only select...
As a lot of you know Ashley ‘MADBASS’ Burrell and myself have been doing SPL testing for the last five weeks in search of the 155dB+ with reliability, well it didn’t start as this but it surely ended that way. Well it started as clamp testing so we could find where our SPL system was the most efficient so we could help do the same for a good friends car with a similar set-up, with this we not only tested the amplifiers to find where they were making the most power but also where they were netting the best result...
The Abtec Audio Lounge has been in full play for four months now so I thought I’d take some time and do a little write up on what has been added to it, during this time it has gone through a couple of changes including getting a full 3D Projector and also two new couches to accommodate more people while we have movies playing. The upgrade of the Audio Lounge was a interesting one as I personally thought it was all done and finished, but I soon realised that Ashley wasn’t one hundred percent happy with visual side of the...
Being the middle of the year it was time for yet another ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive Winter Event, this time round it was at our NEW Shop in Petone making it a far better site for parking but also having enough room to move around in the workshop while the event was running. Yet again the regular competitors have been stepping up their game with some very impressive upgrade’s and even some of newer people in the scene have been fully rebuilding with almost everybody beating their own personal bests! As we all started to setup it was...
So your interested in getting into SPL? The first thing you will want to do is work out how much money you want to spend, get that figure and instantly double it because I can tell you from experience that dB Drag Racing like any competitive sport can become very expensive! I’m not writing this to change your mind about getting into SPL, in fact if competing in SPL is what you really want to do I say go for it! I just would like to inform people that are just beginning in SPL or thinking of doing so that...
I only found out yesterday that Sony makes a $60,000 set of home theatre speakers! After getting all the info sent to me from Sony NZ I have found I am some what obsessing with the Sony SS-AR1’s! And just look at them! They just scream class with the piano black finish! When a lot of people think of Sony they think of low to mid level car audio, what they tend to forget is that Sony has been a big part of the Movie, Entertainment and Music Industries for quite sometime and had established itself as a company in...
Since the move to our NEW shop I haven’t found much time to write many blogs so I thought I’d hide in my new office and write about my favourite feature of the NEW building, The ABTEC Home Theatre Demo Room! This is something I know Ashley has wanted to do for a long time since he has a passion for not only car audio but also home theatre, if you have ever watched a movie at his house you would know exactly what I mean! The choice of the product used/fitted to the room was actually an easy task...
I’ve personally been involved with moving a couple of large companies to new locations/buildings over the last 15 years and out of all of them I’d have to say this move would have to be the most time consuming of the lot. Also I’d say it was the most exciting move as it wasn’t just moving a lot of stock and calling it a day, it was moving ABTEC into its own building and setting up the two sides of the business (Workshop & Retail) separately with their own needs & wants. Plans on moving to a bigger/better location had been talked...
