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Oehlbach presents its new high-end headphone amplifier with asynchronous USB input and integrated digital/analogue converter Power, flexibility and an excellent price/performance ratio are the cornerstones of the new headphone amplifier design that has been developed by our Oehlbach engineers. The Oehlbach XXL DAC-Ultra is perfectly suitable for all headphones, from Read more…

Not everyone is lucky enough to have owned an Mitsubishi EVO let alone two of them, Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell has however been this lucky and he even owned them both at the same time for a while there too! Even though the Mitsubishi EVO IX was Ashley’s favourite car Read more…

Back in mid 2000 Ashley ‘Mad Bass’ Burrell brought a new company vehicle, this vehicle was a Isuzu Wizard. The Wizard spent many a year doing everything from daily duties, driving rep’s around to hauling audio equipment around NZ. After 6 years of work duties Ashley thought it would be good Read more…

Compact, high-performance and equipped with the latest technologies, the BTX 1000 Bluetooth receiver ensures perfect audio streaming. High-quality audio components frequently do not satisfy with flexible connections, not to speak of wireless music streaming. Oehlbach now has an effective remedy for this. Simply connect the BTX 1000 Bluetooth receiver to Read more…

Ok this Blog isn’t written about myself getting a Mitsubishi EVO IX as a demo car but about when Ashley Burrell our MD brought one for himself. I understand as a man and as a car enthusiast you can’t really put a price on happiness and this must be obtained by Read more…

Its not very often that a DD Audio Z Series gets brought here in little old New Zealand, what is even more rare is a customer that will happily let me open the box so we could take a photos of it! Today here at ABTEC is a very exciting Read more…

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 Read more…

Back on the 12th of May 2012 not only did we manage a 150.1dB with the 4 entry level 10″ Sony Xplod’s in the Toyota Vitz but we also managed to get 152.3dB with the same set-up apart from the 4 entry level JBL 12″ sub-woofers. We have also managed Read more…

It’s not very often I get to write about something turning twenty, let alone a company that started from the humble beginnings of one man’s idea of turning his job/passion of car audio in a life long career. Being ABTEC’s twentieth year in business I thought it was such a great milestone for Read more…