It was that time of year again, time for the V 4 & Rotary Jamboree Sounds Alive & Extreme Bass Battle Sound Off! Just like last year the weather at Manfield Park was flawless but the turnout was even better with twenty three people this time round! Again we had Aaron & Deirdere running the show allowing Ashley again to roam around with his camera! The morning started well… Well I wasn’t there for the setup (A first in the last couple of years) so when I arrived all I had to do was setup the Term-Lab and after a couple of small...
So you have been thinking about getting a Subwoofer Enclosure made? Well there is a lot more involved in getting one made than slapping some wood together and putting some holes in it. In fact there are so many variables involved that I can not sum it up in one paragraph. (ABTEC’s SPL/SQL Enclosure for ABTEC3) First of all you need to work out what you are looking for when it comes to your bass needs, for a lot of people Pre-fab Enclosures will provide more than enough for their needs. For the rest of us it becomes a little...
Its not very often that I get to compare two different series Digital Designs Subwoofers in the same enclosure yet alone two different 21″ Subwoofers! So when I was asked to do a comparison of the DD-9921 & DD-Z21 (Knowing this meant I got to daily ABTEC1 for some time.) I already knew I couldn’t say no to this! Ok, to start off I have to say that comparing any Subwoofer in the Digital Designs range to a DD-Z is just unfair in my opinion as the DD-Z’s have a very unique clean sound about them. So after the DD-9921...
It was that time again, time for another V 4 & Rotary Sounds Alive Sound Off! And this year in Auckland it was another scorching day with a decent amount of competitors yet again. This time things were changed up a bit giving Ashley time to take more photos and enjoy the event, while Aaron, Deirdere, David, Shane, Leon, Joe and myself took charge of the event! The morning started well with pretty much everybody arriving before 7:30AM, while everybody socialised in the car park I was setting up the dB Drag Trailer & marquee. Once this job was done we...
Since I’ve been apart of ABTEC the one vehicle in the fleet that has been through the most amount of changes would have to be ABTEC1 (Mitsubishi Pajero), so many that I am struggling to remember not what has been in it but what hasn’t from the ABTEC arsenal of sound… So to start this off lets go down memory lane and list some of the set-ups ABTEC1 has ran! The first set-up I remember would be the 4 x Digital Designs DD-SW6.5’s firing out the back of the Pajero & a Digital Designs DD-9512-D2 firing forward just behind the...
It had been quite some time since V4 & Rotary had a dB Drag Event or any event in the South Island, in fact there hasn’t been one since before the Christchurch quakes. With this in mind I think most people were quite excited to be having another event in the South Island and I personally think they couldn’t of chosen a better location, sunny Nelson! Nelson is possibly one of my favourite locations around New Zealand, with its Far-North like sunny weather to the friendly locals makes it an ideal place to host such events or even a get...
Digital Designs have just released their NEW Entry-Level REDLINE Series Subwoofers, a lot of you are most likely thinking that Digital Designs has the 500 Series to cover Entry-Level which is true but it makes perfect sense to provide the same quality to a broader range of enthusiasts! The REDLINE Series are made using the same quality standards as the American-Made Subwoofers, hand-built using the same Digital Designs Audio innovations with the parts tooled to Digital Designs exact specifications to provide you with the same performance expected from Digital Designs at an affordable price-point. The REDLINE Series Subwoofers are broken...
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...
