{"id":2439,"date":"2012-09-13T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2015-06-27T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:00:49","slug":"a-new-dual-12-sub-box-to-house-two-dd-512-d4-sub-woofers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/a-new-dual-12-sub-box-to-house-two-dd-512-d4-sub-woofers\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Dual 12&#8243; Sub-Box to House Two DD-512-D4 Sub-Woofers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I had a request for a <strong>Sub-Woofer box<\/strong> to be made for a <strong>Nissan Stagea<\/strong>, this seemed like a very easy request at the time until I had the measurements text messaged to me. Being one who likes a\u00a0challenge\u00a0I got right onto it, first ringing our box builder\u00a0and seeing if he could work with the dimensions provided already knowing he\u00a0would have a drawing right quick!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8125.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2451\" title=\"IMG_8125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8125.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8125-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the box profile could only be so tall the <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> choice was quite slim, so after a few conversations the choice was a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_512_D4\" target=\"_blank\">DD-512-D4<\/a><\/strong>. The <strong>DD-512-D4<\/strong> is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ddaudio.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs<\/a><\/strong> entry level 12&#8243; <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> and is a very underrated sub at that as I have run 2 <strong>DD-512-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> off a M4 in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/abtec1-manzone-north-city-shopping-centre-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABTEC1<\/a><\/strong> for over a month without any issues!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8129.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2453\" title=\"IMG_8129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8129.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8129-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we had a dimensional drawing to confirm our thoughts on this box it was time for our box builder\u00a0to start his thing and cut, drill and screw to his hearts content! It still cease&#8217;s to amaze me how quickly we\u00a0are making these boxes now too, it was about four hours from the text saying he had started the box to the post up on Facebook saying it was finished!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8130.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2454\" title=\"IMG_8130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8130.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8130-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that the box was finished it was time for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/thirty-years.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley &#8216;MAD BASS&#8217; Burrell<\/a><\/strong> to do his thing and get his carpet on! Since the <strong>Nissan Stagea&#8217;s<\/strong> interior is grey it made perfect sense to go with a grey carpet to give the box a almost factory look.<\/p>\n<p>Once the carpeting was all done <strong>Ashley &#8216;MAD BASS&#8217; Burrell<\/strong> installed <strong>ABTEC&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0signature plug system that we run on all our set-up&#8217;s including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/abtec-db-drag-soundoff-sounds-alive-2012-june-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>152.8dB<\/strong> <strong>Toyota Vitz<\/strong> (<strong>ABTEC3<\/strong>)<\/a>. This system is run on all our set-up&#8217;s to make removing a <strong>Sub-Woofer box<\/strong> quick and easy, we also use the same system for extra battery set-up&#8217;s since having four\/five batteries in a car on a daily basis is not needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8128.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2452\" title=\"IMG_8128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8128.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8128-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last thing now was to add the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/Precision_Port_6_Flared\" target=\"_blank\">6&#8243; Aero-Port<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>DD-512-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> and grills and because the <strong>Nissan Stagea<\/strong> has had a full <strong>R34 GTR conversion<\/strong> and full <strong>Digital Designs<\/strong> install the\u00a0decision\u00a0was made to glue the port into the box to give it a clean look.<\/p>\n<p>Since this was our first shallow box made I have asked the new owner if I can run in their <strong>Sub-Woofer&#8217;s<\/strong> so I can get a feel of how it will sound, that way when they get the <strong>Sub-Woofer box<\/strong> they can give it full throttle if wanted too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8133.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2455\" title=\"IMG_8133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8133.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_8133-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a final note I will be doing a full Blog\/Review on the <strong>Nissan Stagea<\/strong> once it has had the new head-mods\/work done on the <strong>RB26Dett<\/strong> and I can&#8217;t wait to hear how all its new <strong>Digital Designs<\/strong> gear sounds in it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I had a request for a Sub-Woofer box to be made for a Nissan Stagea, this seemed like a very easy request at the time until I had the measurements text messaged to me. Being one who likes a\u00a0challenge\u00a0I got right onto it, first ringing our box builder\u00a0and seeing if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5915,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}