{"id":180,"date":"2013-11-17T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:24:47","slug":"dd-audio-z18-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/dd-audio-z18-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DD Audio Z18 Product Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten years ago if someone had told me that I would be writing a review on what I consider one of the most&nbsp;phenomenal <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> ever built &amp; that before having the chance to write about it I would be Listening to it in my daily driver for over three months I would of told them they were crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Sub-Woofer is the <strong>DD Audio DD-Z18-D1.5&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>sound quality<\/strong> of the <strong>Z18<\/strong> is just absolutely beautiful that no array of words could ever do it justice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have owned <strong>18\u2033 Sub-Woofers<\/strong> in the past, they have always been slow moving and have never been good for <strong>sound quality<\/strong>. The <strong>Z18<\/strong> on the other hand moves extremely fast and the bass it produces is just breath taking (literally if turned up loud in the truck cabin) that I have found it hard to go back to having any other <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> in the truck since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SPECIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Magnet Weight: 7 kilo-tones<\/li><li>Item: Z18<\/li><li>Nominal Impedance: various<\/li><li>Port Area (sq in): 104<\/li><li>Port Length (in): 19<\/li><li>Power Handling RMS\/Peak: If you need to ask\u2026<\/li><li>Rec Box (cubic ft): 6.5<\/li><li>Sensitivity: Emo<\/li><li>Series: Z<\/li><li>Shipping Weight: 60 lbs<\/li><li>Suspension Travel: Check<\/li><li>Voice Coil Diameter: 76.2mm<\/li><li>Woofer Diameter: 18\u2033<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Z18_3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall I have to say this is the most amazing sounding <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> I have ever had the chance to hear let alone got the chance to use on a daily basis, as I stated before the <strong>Z18<\/strong> is so beautiful sounding yet so brutal at high volumes that it has ruined me for any <strong>Sub-Woofer<\/strong> I will ever get to use or own after the <strong>Z18<\/strong>. Even though it is not fair to compare a <strong>Z18<\/strong> to any other woofer out there I can\u2019t help but do so now and somehow feel sorry for other <strong>Sub-Woofers<\/strong> that can\u2019t perform to the same level of the <strong>Z18<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago if someone had told me that I would be writing a review on what I consider one of the most&nbsp;phenomenal Sub-Woofers ever built &amp; that before having the chance to write about it I would be Listening to it in my daily driver for over three months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}