Abtec NZ has been at the forefront of Car and Home Audio since our opening in February 1993. Abtec NZ opened it’s doors at 49 Hutt Road, Petone April 2013. Now in February 2016 our Petone store has had a full makeover bringing the best of both worlds together, Car and Home Audio all under one roof and with addition of a full installation workshop at 49a Hutt Road, Petone. We also provide a full mobile installation service locally for Home Audio products and delivery is also available if required. See below photos of our Petone store after it’s new makeover 2016. Main...
Arriving at the venue just after 7am, I knew the day was going to be a scorcher and I was not wrong! With the Gazebo, PA gear, PC, and lanes now setup I went through to check out the cars, and number, and mark the mic placement. Looking at the setups people had it was also going to be a very LOUD day… again I was not wrong! The day ran like a well-oiled machine with competitors and crowd working well together to help competitors to and from the lanes. The days temperatures played a big part for a couple...
Powercruise 2015 SPL Soundoff rocks Taupo over the weekend, and weather held up well too. Good to see everyone having fun and enjoying what Powercruise has to offer…. Well, see below results for the day… Newby Angie Hay 145.0 Sarn Elliott 137.4 Jarell Lund 136.5 Josh Joyce 127.4 Class A Jason Schutt 146.8 Dineshan Naidoo 140.7 Class B John Paul Latu (AK) Phantom 149.4 Ellen Jason Cole 141.3 Class C Matty Bee 151.6 Johnny Asiata 150.3 Junior Iny 146.3 Rowan Baldwin 146.1 Ashley Madd Bass Burrell 146.0 Marvin Mason 144.4 Scribble Brian Harawira Rakei 144.2 Sam Ta’alili 144.0 Haedyn Ddftw Schaumkell 140.0 Overs 1-2 Anthony Latu 155.9 Tam Nairn 150.8 Overs 3+ Steven Twenty-hertz Feavearyear 156.3 Bolo...
Well its that time again, time for the V4 & Rotary SPL & Sounds Alive Sound Off South Island Champs Nov 2015 Update! Well again Nelson turned on a great day and a big thank you to for everyone supporting us at South Island’s dB Drag SPL & Sounds Alive Event! Last years event was the biggest event I have attended, and I enjoyed it due to the people, the sunny Nelson location and also the fact we got to demo most of the day. This year round it is good to see more newcomers entering the events and taking part of the fun...
Sony showed for the first time a working prototype of the first Hi-Res Audio deck for the car along with a pair of super tweeters that can reproduce sound above 22 kHz. The deck is expected to ship at the end of the year, with more news on the product to be revealed next month, said Sony Director of Mobile & Headphones, Personal Imaging and Audio Division Takumi Sasaki at KnowledgeFest this weekend. The picture here does not do justice to the high style full aluminum machined finish on the unit with bright white LED lighting. It can play 192kHz/24...
by Paul Scarpelli — June 23, 2015 Clipping, impedance, heat, sensitivity, blown drivers, and other annoying mysteries… The topic of speaker power handling has been addressed several times here at Audioholics, but I wanted to make things a bit easier to understand. There was a superb three-part series done in 2008 by Paul Appolino, and it is far more technical than I will or can ever get. The three pieces are brilliantly composed, and I suggest you read the whole series. This current article will be more from the perspective and real-world experiences of a professional audio guy who for...
Amplifier Setup Basics It’s amazing what just a little bit of attention to the initial setup of your audio equipment will provide in the way of equipment longevity and acoustic satisfaction. However basic the initial setup of an amplifier may seem, the fact remains the majority of amp and subwoofer failures we see come through our service department are a direct result of amplifier clipping and/or improper crossover utilization. Both of which can be corrected during the initial setup. If you’re now asking yourself what exactly we’re talking about when we reference clipping or improper crossover utilization, here is a...
First thing, determine your system’s priorities. Will you watch movies or listen to music? Most people do one or the other. Since more home theatre speaker buyers watch movies than listen to music, I’ll start there. It’s hardly an overstatement to claim movie-oriented home theatre systems succeed or fail based on their centre channel’s performance and sound quality. The centre speaker delivers virtually all the dialogue and it can, depending on the mix, convey upward of 80 percent of a movie’s soundtrack. The centre speaker has a big job. So invest 30 percent of your 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 system...
Dealer: Abtec NZ Online Car Audio Location: 49 Hutt Road, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand This month’s spotlight is Abtec NZ, which is based on the other side of the earth, middle-earth, in fact. Abtec started as a small company twenty years ago doing basic installations and slowly building itself up to being one of New Zealand’s largest car audio companies. It has now established itself in its own building in the retail hub of Petone. Abtec is the brainchild of Ashley Burrell, who started in the car audio scene thirty one years ago, soon after he brought his brother Darryl...
Back in August 2013 we started testing the Z18. There is a story that goes with that too. OK, back in March 2012 we were asked by Sony NZ if we could test 4 of their 10″ XSLD106P5 Subwoofers, as someone had just done a 150.0db in the USA in a CRX, as you may or may not know I’m a SQ guy so burps are not my thing. As we run db Drag NZ maybe we could do something. So with that in mind we started a robust testing regime and with some time and effort we pulled a...
