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...
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...
It’s not very often I get to write about something turning twenty, let alone a company that started from the humble beginnings of one man’s idea of turning his job/passion of car audio in a life long career. Being ABTEC’s twentieth year in business I thought it was such a great milestone for not only Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell but for ABTEC as a whole so I just had to write something in celebration! Since Ashley wouldn’t let me use a real photo of him and Darryl I borrowed the one below and ‘adjusted it a touch’. When Ashley started ABTEC in NZ...
As this year has been moving on it feels as the dB Drag Events have been approaching so quickly it hasn’t given everybody the time to test and tune but this could mean that I have finally have gotten old or maybe I just need to pay more attention. The turn out so far has been been quite impressive with a lot of new-comers joining in on the fun, this to me is an important apart of the game & without all these new faces there cannot be growth in the sport! As we turned up to the gates at...
Over the last year ABTEC1 has gone through a few transformations, when I got my grubby hands on it the Pajero it had one DD-9512-D2 facing forward & four DD-SW6.5’s facing the rear door. After that it went through a series of set-ups including four DD-512-D4’s all the way up to running a DD-Z12-D1 & DD-Z18-D1 at different stages. This blog isn’t about the different set-up’s we have run as that would be novel on the product list alone, but about the build of its NEW and final set-up of 4 DD-515-D4’s in a wall. Walling ABTEC1 had been a discussion...
