{"id":2321,"date":"2012-08-24T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2015-06-26T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T04:08:57","slug":"digital-designs-z18-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-z18-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Designs Z18 Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago if someone had told me that I would be writing a review on what I consider one of the most\u00a0phenomenal <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> ever built &amp; that before having the chance to write about it I would be Listening to it in my daily driver for over three months I would of told them they were crazy!<\/p>\n<p>This Sub-Woofer is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ddaudio.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_Z18_2\" target=\"_blank\">DD-Z18-D1.5<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2337\" title=\"Z18_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>sound quality<\/strong> of the <strong>Z18<\/strong> is just absolutely beautiful that no array of words could ever do it justice!<\/p>\n<p>I have owned <strong>18&#8243; Sub-Woofers<\/strong> in the past, they have always been slow moving and have never been good for <strong>sound quality<\/strong>. The <strong>Z18<\/strong> on the other hand moves extremely fast and the bass it produces is just breath taking (literally if turned up loud in the truck cabin) that I have found it hard to go back to having any other <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> in the truck since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2338\" title=\"Z18_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magnet Weight: 7 kilo-tones<\/li>\n<li>Item: Z18<\/li>\n<li>Nominal Impedance: various<\/li>\n<li>Port Area (sq in): 104<\/li>\n<li>Port Length (in): 19<\/li>\n<li>Power Handling RMS\/Peak: If you need to ask&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Rec Box (cubic ft): 6.5<\/li>\n<li>Sensitivity: Emo<\/li>\n<li>Series: Z<\/li>\n<li>Shipping Weight: 60 lbs<\/li>\n<li>Suspension Travel: Check<\/li>\n<li>Voice Coil Diameter: 76.2mm<\/li>\n<li>Woofer Diameter: 18&#8243;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2339\" title=\"Z18_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Z18_3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall I have to say this is the most amazing sounding <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> I have ever had the chance to hear let alone got the chance to use on a daily basis, as I stated before the <strong>Z18<\/strong> is so beautiful sounding yet so brutal at high volumes that it has ruined me for any <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> I will ever get to use or own after the <strong>Z18<\/strong>. Even though it is not fair to compare a <strong>Z18<\/strong> to any other woofer out there I can&#8217;t help but do so now and somehow feel sorry for other <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> that can&#8217;t perform to the same level of the <strong>Z18<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago if someone had told me that I would be writing a review on what I consider one of the most\u00a0phenomenal Sub-Woofers ever built &amp; that before having the chance to write about it I would be Listening to it in my daily driver for over three months I would of told them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}