{"id":266,"date":"2014-06-20T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:44:53","slug":"dd-audio-z18-cone-replacement-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/dd-audio-z18-cone-replacement-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"DD Audio Z18 Cone Replacement\/Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Its not very often we do cone replacement\u2019s on DD Audio Sub-Woofers<\/strong> yet alone on a DD-Z18<\/strong>! So when Ashley \u2018MAD BASS\u2019 Burrell<\/strong> told me that he was going to cut up the DD-Z18<\/strong> my heart nearly stopped, I had a head full of questions and starting ranting on like some sort of madman looking for any excuse for Ashley<\/strong> not to cut up the Z18<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After what felt like a four hour conversation\/debate Ashley<\/strong> convinced me that what he was going to do was for the greater good of the Z18<\/strong> and reassured me that he hadn\u2019t become a sick & twisted Sub-Woofer<\/strong> serial killer! It was soon after that said conversation that Ashley<\/strong> unpacked the replacement cone for the Z18<\/strong>, this was when things started to make sense as the new cones Spider Suspension for the Z18<\/strong> was twice as thick as the original one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since Cone\/Coil replacement is pretty much the same on most Sub-Woofers<\/strong> I\u2019m not going to go into as much depth as last time, but if you want to read a more in depth write up on Cone\/Coil repairs CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First thing on the cards for Ashley<\/strong> was to cut out the Dust-Cap and Cone. As you can see above Ashley<\/strong> took his time to cut the Carbon-Fibre Dust-Cap out and did so very carefully since he wanted to re-use it on the new Cone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This time round Ashley<\/strong> invested in some much needed safety gear since the fumes that come off the glue and rubber is very toxic. Ashley<\/strong> has also made up a plug of sorts to cover the top of the Z18\u2019s<\/strong> motor to minimise the amount of aluminium dust that contacts the motor, he used a vacuum to remove the dust as he was carefully grinding away all the excess glue and rubber off the Sub-Woofer<\/strong> basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And as you can see in the photo above that Ashley\u2019s<\/strong> patience paid off and the surface of the basket was almost perfectly smooth, also take note of the Z18\u2019s<\/strong> unique motor and Coil-pole as this is very rarely seen by anybody outside of DD Audio.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the clean up of the Sub-Woofer<\/strong> basket it was time to glue the new Cone\/Coil and Spider Suspension into place and as easy as it looks to glue a Cone into place it actually is quite finicky and requires the person doing so to act quickly as explained in the original Sub-Woofer<\/strong> repair Blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The end product as seen here is like new, well it pretty much is a new Sub-Woofer<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, time to explain a few things now. By now you are most likely going \u201cThis is cool, but why would you cut up a seven thousand dollar Sub-Woofer<\/strong>?\u201d or \u201cWhat was wrong with it?\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Ashley<\/strong> had brought over a special Cone\/Coil with a SPL ES (Extra Stiff) Spider Suspension for the Z18<\/strong> earlier on in the year with the intention of swapping it over eventually. But before doing the swap he wanted to hear the Z18<\/strong> first and why not too, its not like you would buy a Z18<\/strong> and not at least listen to it for a few hundred hours before cutting it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Final product from this is a Sub-Woofer<\/strong> that will be completely bulletproof (Not literally, please don\u2019t shoot it!) and if the new DD-9518-D2<\/strong> SC (Supercharged) ES that is in ABTEC3<\/strong> is anything to go by the Z18<\/strong> ES will be something\u00a0phenomenal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its not very often we do cone replacement\u2019s on DD Audio Sub-Woofers yet alone on a DD-Z18! So when Ashley \u2018MAD BASS\u2019 Burrell told me that he was going to cut up the DD-Z18 my heart nearly stopped, I had a head full of questions and starting ranting on like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}