{"id":127,"date":"2013-06-05T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T04:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:21:26","slug":"abtec-lower-hutts-showroom-gets-rocked-by-its-new-dd-audio-z18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/abtec-lower-hutts-showroom-gets-rocked-by-its-new-dd-audio-z18\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTEC Lower Hutt\u2019s Showroom Gets Rocked By Its New DD Audio Z18!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week after a long discussion with Ashley Burrell<\/strong> a decision was made to change the look of the Lower Hutt Showroom<\/strong> a touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This meant not only taking the DD Audio DD-Z18-D1.5<\/strong> out of the the Pajero (ABTEC1<\/strong>), but it also meant that we had to carpet it so it didn\u2019t look out of place next to all the other carpeted boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the Z18<\/strong> and 9512<\/strong>\u2018s boxes were all carpeted, it was time to drive them over to Lower Hutt. When we arrived Ashley<\/strong> soon realised he had forgot his keys, lucky for us Darryl Burrell<\/strong> wasn\u2019t to far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While waiting for the keys to arrive I couldn\u2019t help but text Johnny<\/strong> to have a laugh at Ashley\u2019s<\/strong> expense, while you might think this is mean I found it amusing at the time since Ashley<\/strong> NEVER forgets anything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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Next up was measuring up the showroom just to make sure the Z18<\/strong> could fit, after shuffling a few things around it was time to disassemble the old Z12<\/strong> \u201cRobot\u201d. It didn\u2019t take long till the head-unit and speakers had been removed off the Z12<\/strong> box and attached to the Z18<\/strong>\u2018s box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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By now Ashley<\/strong> had the NEW Z18 <\/strong>\u201cRobot\u201d wired and ready to test so while Ashley<\/strong> and Johnny<\/strong> modified the Z12<\/strong>\u2018s box a touch I spent a good hour playing various types of music on the Z<\/strong> ranging from Dubstep to underground hip-hop and even some Pink Floyd to mix it up a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something amazing about the Z18<\/strong> 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<\/strong> 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<\/strong> in the back of my daily driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are ever in the Lower Hutt<\/strong> area feel free to pop into the Showroom, check out the Z18<\/strong> and Z12<\/strong> 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<\/strong> was mine to use on a daily basis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019t look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}