{"id":2886,"date":"2013-02-05T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2015-06-30T07:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:01:57","slug":"digital-designs-dd-510-d4-x4-hit-a-mammoth-153-5db","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-dd-510-d4-x4-hit-a-mammoth-153-5db\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Designs DD-510-D4 x4 Hit a Mammoth 153.5dB!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <strong>dB Drag Season<\/strong> has come back around it was finally time to test the <strong>10&#8243; x 4 Sub-Woofer Box<\/strong> that we got the <strong>150.1dB<\/strong> with the entry level <strong>10&#8243; Sony&#8217;s<\/strong>. We had fitted the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_510_D4\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Designs DD-510-D4 Sub-Woofers<\/a><\/strong> almost four to five months prior to this test and had only run them in on light music. From what I could tell they sounded quite good even though they were tuned higher to my personal preference since it is a <strong>&#8216;Burp&#8217;<\/strong> box but in saying that the high tune suits <strong>Darryl&#8217;s<\/strong> musical taste to a tee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2893\" title=\"DD-510-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we had tested everything from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_512_D4\" target=\"_blank\">DD-512-D4&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/DD_Z18_2\" target=\"_blank\">DD-Z18<\/a><\/strong> in <strong>ABTEC3 (Toyota Vitz)<\/strong> over the past year either on <strong>&#8216;Burps&#8217;<\/strong> or on our <strong>&#8216;Sounds Alive&#8217;<\/strong> music class I thought it was about time to do some testing with the <strong>DD-510-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> and see what I could get out of them.<\/p>\n<p>We had given the <strong>DD-510-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> a quick test two nights before the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/v-4-rotary-spl-sounds-alive-sound-off-nationals-january-2013-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">V 4 &amp; Rotary SPL &amp; Sounds Alive Sound Off<\/a><\/strong> so I had a very good idea of the result I was going to get, the hard part was keeping my mouth shut since I was blown away with the result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2894\" title=\"DD-510-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a\u00a0<strong>635Km<\/strong> drive from <strong>Wellington<\/strong> to<strong> Auckland<\/strong> it was time for a quick nap, then of to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/v-4-rotary-spl-sounds-alive-sound-off-nationals-january-2013-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">V 4 &amp; Rotary SPL &amp; Sounds Alive Sound Off<\/a>. <\/strong>Once at the event everyone was having a peek in the windows of competitors cars seeing what we all were running, I even recall a couple of people chuckling to themselves that I was running <strong>10&#8243; Sub-Woofers<\/strong> at a <strong>Sound Off<\/strong> not knowing that I had a <strong>150+dB<\/strong> in them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2895\" title=\"DD-510-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we had setup the <strong>dB Drag<\/strong> site setup it was time for me to go through my routine of checking and rechecking my car making sure nothing was forgotten, there has only been one change to my system of late and this is my <strong>Alpine Head-Unit<\/strong> that is attached to a pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>It has finally got to the point where the <strong>CD<\/strong> skips from <strong>&#8216;Burps&#8217;<\/strong> so having the <strong>Head-Unit<\/strong> outside the car made perfect sense, not only does it solve the problem with the <strong>CD<\/strong> skipping but also is a good fail-safe since I no longer have to rely on a remote control if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2896\" title=\"DD-510-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit I got a few odd looks when I carried the pedestal out to <strong>ABTEC3<\/strong> and started hooking it all up, which is to be expected when the smallest car at the <strong>Sound Off<\/strong> with the smallest <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> pulls up to get tested.<\/p>\n<p>Once everything was hooked up and ready it was that time again, time to give the <strong>DD-510-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> some juice and see what magical numbers it puts out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2897\" title=\"DD-510-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DD-510-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see above <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/thirty-years.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley &#8216;MAD BASS&#8217; Burrell<\/a><\/strong> &amp; I were and still are wrapped with the result, how could we not be too! Getting into the <strong>150+dB<\/strong> range is always an achievement but doing a <strong>153.5dB<\/strong> with four of <strong>Digital Designs<\/strong> entry level <strong>DD-510-D4&#8217;s<\/strong> is just Mammoth!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to end this blog by thanking <strong>Ashley<\/strong> for giving me the time, place and equipment for all our testing of <strong>ABTEC3<\/strong>, <strong>Jassa<\/strong> of <strong>Digital Designs<\/strong> for designing such beautifully made <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong>, all the people involved with &amp; helping out during the testing and also my lady <strong>Lauren<\/strong> for for putting up with my constant long hours during the testing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dB Drag Season has come back around it was finally time to test the 10&#8243; x 4 Sub-Woofer Box that we got the 150.1dB with the entry level 10&#8243; Sony&#8217;s. We had fitted the Digital Designs DD-510-D4 Sub-Woofers almost four to five months prior to this test and had only run them in [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886"}],"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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}