{"id":5234,"date":"2014-12-20T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2014-12-20T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:44:43","slug":"digital-designs-9918-d1-es-customer-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/digital-designs-9918-d1-es-customer-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Designs 9918-D1-ES Customer Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digital Designs 9918s <\/span>Hit NZ<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well\u00a0I guess this adventure started off when ATM (Ashley The MaddMan),\u00a0called me one day back around august last year, he asked me if\u00a0I was interested in trialling out the new redline series woofers that DD were about to release, ATM went on to say it was a no obligation deal which basically meant if\u00a0I didn’t like them there was no pressure to buy &\u00a0I could just send them back, well with a deal like that how could\u00a0I refuse so\u00a0I agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few weeks went by &\u00a0I got another call from ATM, “Tom would you like to up the stakes a bit?” He went on to tell me that DD were releasing the new 99 series & he could get the very first two off the factory floor from the US, he had no trouble twisting my arm\u00a0I must admit,\u00a0I had heard about the old 99 series that use to dominate back in the day\u00a0I knew they could take\u00a0a lot of power.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So around four weeks passed until they 9918s arrived,\u00a0I went to Wellington to collect them personally, my first impressions were…..they are huge suckers & they looked awesome in person, a real sexy looking woofer,\u00a0I had to give them the lift test……those things are solid as, heavyweights no doubt but the thing that stood out for me the most was how stiff these things were, i pushed down on the cone & it didn’t move at all so\u00a0I put a bit of weight into it & it barely moved, all\u00a0I could think of was how the hell can an amp move those things if\u00a0I cant with the weight\u00a0I was putting on the cone. <\/span><\/p>\n

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After getting them home & fitted into my wall\u00a0I was stunned at how good they looked in my car, they really are a sharp looking weapon,\u00a0I couldn’t wait to hear them so\u00a0I drove Mi-Rage down to work so I could listen to them without disturbing my suburb, after listening to three or four tracks\u00a0I wasn’t really digging them at all to be honest, the issue\u00a0I had with them was they wouldn’t play low,\u00a0I knew they were new & not run in but\u00a0I expected more out of them to tell the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the next week\u00a0I clocked up about 40hours of run in time at about half volume but didn’t really notice any change to the low frequency output,\u00a0I put the Mi-Rage on the Term-lab to see what it was peaking at, it was around 36-35hrtz, a lot away from where\u00a0I wanted it to be,\u00a0I actually called ATM & told him that\u00a0I don’t think these are the rite woofers for me but ATM wasn’t finished with me yet, he told me to keep going with the run in process, “its only early days mate”<\/span>
I decided that\u00a0I was going to increase the volume\u00a0I was running the woofers in at to try & help free them up a bit so the second week of run in was done between 60-75% volume & all low frequency tracks,\u00a0I was taking Mi-Rage to work & leaving it play for my whole shift, checking up on it at meal breaks,\u00a0I also had my Intelli-charger plugged in so the batteries were getting topped off & were not getting drained.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That allowed me to clock up a lot of run in time very fast,\u00a0I got to around 70hours run in &\u00a0I noticed the lower frequency range was stronger then it had been, progress !<\/span><\/p>\n

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The next 40hours\u00a0I put on the woofers was done around the 80% volume mark & it paid off big time, it basically took me over 120hours to run these 9918s in to a point where\u00a0I was happy with them, after testing them on the Term-lab again the peak has come down to 30htz, that’s what I’m talking about !!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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After having the 99s for about five to six weeks\u00a0I knew\u00a0I didn’t want to give them back, they sound amazing & hit lows with authority,\u00a0I really didn’t expect the run in to play such a big part,\u00a0I would go as far as saying that a brand new 9918 & a fully run in 9918 would be like comparing a v8 Commodore \/ Falcon you buy new off the show room floor to a v8 supercar that races at Bathurst, there really is that much of a difference.<\/span>
Well in the year or so\u00a0I have had the 9918s\u00a0I have competed & done a few demo videos, to say they have done me well is an understatement,\u00a0 as the MiRage sits now it can hit a 150db from 21htz all the way through to 55htz, peaking at 156db 28-32htz (music score), the 99s are musical monsters epic woofers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To make this adventure even more awesome if you go on to the Digital Designs website & look at the photos of the 9918s those are actually my woofers, they used my woofers for the website catalogue photos……enough said !!!<\/span>
Don’t be surprised if these are not the last 9918s\u00a0I buy………shots fired!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Digital Designs 9918s Hit NZ Well\u00a0I guess this adventure started off when ATM (Ashley The MaddMan),\u00a0called me one day back around august last year, he asked me if\u00a0I was interested in trialling out the new redline series woofers that DD were about to release, ATM went on to say it was a no obligation deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234"}],"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=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}