ABTEC Lower Hutt’s Showroom Gets Rocked By Its New DD Audio Z18!!

Last week after a long discussion with Ashley Burrell a decision was made to change the look of the Lower Hutt Showroom a touch.

This meant not only taking the DD Audio DD-Z18-D1.5 out of the the Pajero (ABTEC1), but it also meant that we had to carpet it so it didn’t look out of place next to all the other carpeted boxes.

Once the Z18 and 9512‘s boxes were all carpeted, it was time to drive them over to Lower Hutt. When we arrived Ashley soon realised he had forgot his keys, lucky for us Darryl Burrell wasn’t to far away.

While waiting for the keys to arrive I couldn’t help but text Johnny to have a laugh at Ashley’s expense, while you might think this is mean I found it amusing at the time since Ashley NEVER forgets anything!

Not long after Johnny had turned up and we all sat in his Legacy admiring the sound that was coming out of his new Johnnybox sub-woofer enclosure, next thing we knew Darryl had arrived and it was time to get to work.

The first job was removing a DD Audio DD-3510-d2 from a old box so Johnny can size it up for a Johnnybox but I will leave that for another blog.

Next up was measuring up the showroom just to make sure the Z18 could fit, after shuffling a few things around it was time to disassemble the old Z12 “Robot”. It didn’t take long till the head-unit and speakers had been removed off the Z12 box and attached to the Z18‘s box.

While Ashley was doing the Z12/18 swap, Johnny and I decided it would be cool to invert the Z12 in its box so everyone could see the motor. I must say the Z Series must be one of the coolest looking sub-woofers when inverted!

By now Ashley had the NEW Z18 “Robot” wired and ready to test so while Ashley and Johnny modified the Z12‘s box a touch I spent a good hour playing various types of music on the Z ranging from Dubstep to underground hip-hop and even some Pink Floyd to mix it up a bit.

There is something amazing about the Z18 that can not be put into words, if you ever get the chance to listen to some of your favourite songs on one you will know what I mean here. And as happy as I was to be able to turn up the Z18 and just stand there in complete awe, I was just as sad when it finally hit me like a ton of bricks to the head that I would no longer have the Z18 in the back of my daily driver.

With the Showroom all finished and cleaned up it was time again to lock-up but before we left I had to play one more song on the Z18.

If you are ever in the Lower Hutt area feel free to pop into the Showroom, check out the Z18 and Z12 for yourself and ask one of the team to give you a demo. But if you happen to drop by on a Saturday you might find me standing there in awe once again reminiscing about when the Z18 was mine to use on a daily basis!