{"id":2343,"date":"2012-09-05T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2015-06-27T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:07:00","slug":"digital-designs-z12-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-z12-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Designs Z12 Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only have had the chance to drive around with the beautiful sounding but yet so brutal <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-z18-product-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs Z18<\/a><\/strong> for over three months, but for the last two weeks I have had the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_Z12_2\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs Z12-D2<\/a><\/strong> in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/abtec1-manzone-north-city-shopping-centre-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABTEC1<\/a><\/strong> or my daily driver as I call it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-Header.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2426\" title=\"DD-Z12-Header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-Header.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-Header-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-Header-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might recall me saying it is and was hard to go back to any other <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> after running the <strong>Z18<\/strong> and I can assure you I still feel very much that way! It has been quite a while since we had the <strong>Z18<\/strong> in <strong>ABTEC1<\/strong> and since then we have been looking for the perfect <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> to refine the sound, after trying a few different set-ups <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/thirty-years.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley &#8216;MAD BASS&#8217; Burrell<\/a><\/strong> mentioned trying the <strong>Z12<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2430\" title=\"DD-Z12-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley<\/strong> didn&#8217;t have to mention it twice as already being\u00a0<strong>DD-Z<\/strong> crazy I thought it was the best idea I had heard all year, the next week felt like a year waiting for the Z12 box to be built and\u00a0upholstered but was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>The sound that came out of the <strong>Z12<\/strong> was just amazing, also keep in mind before the <strong>Z12<\/strong> I was running four <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_512_D4\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs 512&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong>. I know these two series of <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> are worlds apart but in saying that I went from four <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> to only one! From the low bass of Hip-Hop &amp; Dubstep to the fast kicks of Rock &amp; Metal the <strong>Z12<\/strong> performs beautifully and\u00a0precisely!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2429\" title=\"DD-Z12-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-21-300x200.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: Z12<\/li>\n<li>Nominal Impedance: Various<\/li>\n<li>Port Area (sq in): 48<\/li>\n<li>Port Length (in): 21<\/li>\n<li>Power Handling RMS\/Peak: If you need to ask&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Rec Box (cubic ft): 3<\/li>\n<li>Sensitivity: Emo<\/li>\n<li>Series: Z<\/li>\n<li>Shipping Weight: 47 lbs<\/li>\n<li>Suspension Travel: Check<\/li>\n<li>Voice Coil Diameter: 76.2mm<\/li>\n<li>Woofer Diameter: 12&#8243;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2428\" title=\"DD-Z12-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DD-Z12-11-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet again I am lost for words to fully describe another <strong>DD-Z<\/strong> and only people that have had the chance to\u00a0experience one in the flesh would know the emotional attachment that one gets after listening to your favourite songs through a <strong>DD-Z<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>After writing all of this I am now coming to the conclusion that the day I hand over <strong>ABTEC1<\/strong>&#8216;s keys as my daily driver will be a very\u00a0saddened one at that and that day is\u00a0drawing closer than expected&#8230; Soon I will have another daily driver but I will keep my head up since on the weekend&#8217;s I will be driving <strong>ABTEC1<\/strong> and blasting all my favourite songs on the <strong>Z12<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only have had the chance to drive around with the beautiful sounding but yet so brutal Digital Designs Z18 for over three months, but for the last two weeks I have had the Digital Designs Z12-D2 in ABTEC1 or my daily driver as I call it. You might recall me saying it is and [&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\/2343"}],"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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}