The Whangamata Beach Hop has been going for about 12 years now and has grown from a 6,000 person Rock and Roll 1-day Festival to a 100,000+ (Estimated) person Festival. This is ABTEC‘s and Carshows second year of hosting the photos for the festival on behalf of SONY NZ. And we are very happy to do so, because who doesn’t like Old School Muscle cars! I could write up on how amazing “The Hop” is because I have attended three of them myself in the last ten years but will leave that for the people over at Beach Hop. I...
A lot of people ask “What does ABTEC Gives You BOOM BOOM! mean?” Well when I get asked that I would answer with “ABTEC can supply you with all your Car Audio Bass needs”. Be it one 6.5″ subwoofer to give your music that little more depth to the tone or four 18″ subwoofers that make your bones shake! Ashley Burrell from word go has been “MAD About Bass!” , he was telling me just the other day about when he started in this industry back in 1982 he used to play his music so loud in his “1982 Mitsubishi...
One of the most concerning things in today’s news is the increasing rate of car thefts. I myself have had people attempt and succeed in stealing in one of my cars and it has to be one of the most gut wrenching feelings anyone could feel, this Blog is not about my personal experience but about how to make the right choices in securing your car’s and where to go for installation. When it comes to choosing what type of alarm is needed for your car it can pay to ask your insurance provider how many stars are needed for your car...
The MD finally caved in and let me PIMP OUT my desk! What was a $349 Logitech PC Speaker setup now has some $699 Klipsch Satellite Speakers and also a $149 JBL GTO804 8″ Sub Woofer… Listening to Dubstep at the desk is never going to be the same!!! Just like how I posted up the MD’s desk on Facebook before the blog, I also did the same with my desk. I have been waiting in the shadows for a while now to post this up and finally decided to do so… When our MD had finished decking out his...
The ohm is a measurement of the electric resistance between two points. In a speaker, the ohm is a bad thing. The lower the ohms the less energy it takes to drive the speaker. The less energy, the more you get out of your amps. An 8 ohm speaker requires more amperage to run than a 4 ohm speaker. You need to know the ohms of all of your speakers if you want to calculate the load your amp is taking and to compensate for it. In a car audio you should always run your equipment at the lowest possible...
Some people spend their spare time working on cars making them faster and lower to make them handle better. We at Abtec NZ are no different in a sense, except we spend our time pursuing better SQ (sound quality) and of course bigger SPL (sound pressure levels) . This post is more about the latter… This time round it all started when a little Honda CRX in the USA with a Steve Meade Designed box in it did a stunning 150dB with four Sony 10’s! After seeing what four entry level Sony Xplod Sub’s could achieve, we had to give it a go...
Alan Dante Sets dB Drag Racing World Record With 180.5dB Alan Dante from Lorton, Virginia, set a new world record on August 31st 2007 in a dB Drag competition with a 180.5dB peak using a single Digital Designs subwoofer. Dante’s concrete filled Volvo contained a Digital Designs 9918Z 18″ subwoofer receiving 26,000 watts of power from four Stetsom 7KD amplifiers. Your most likely sitting there wondering how loud is 180 dB is? Well to put into some sort of perspective it is possible to lose ones hearing around the 120 dB mark, a chainsaw is around 110 dB and a...
What do we do in our spare time?? Well, Install a DD-1508 8” Subwoofer into our PC Speakers… Plus some Energy Veritas V-Mini Bookshelf Speakers!! Logitech PC speakers $349.00 DD Sub $499.00!!! Energy Veritas V-Mini Bookshelf Speakers $999.00!!! Logitech new Retail $1498.00… Just a little MAD about BASS!!! Some of you may have already seen this on our Facebook page but I couldn’t help myself from putting it up on here as well. Words can not explain what was going through my mind when Ashley approached me like some sort of madman on a rampage and said “You have to...
