{"id":375,"date":"2015-04-23T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T03:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T02:58:39","slug":"abtec1-gets-4-dd-515-d4s-in-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/abtec1-gets-4-dd-515-d4s-in-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTEC1 Gets 4 DD-515-D4\u2019s in a Wall!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last year ABTEC1<\/strong> has gone through a few transformations, when I got my grubby hands on it the Pajero<\/strong> it had one DD-9512-D2<\/strong> facing forward & four DD-SW6.5\u2019s<\/strong> facing the rear door. After that it went through a series of set-ups including four DD-512-D4\u2019s<\/strong> all the way up to running a DD-Z12-D1<\/strong> & DD-Z18-D1<\/strong> at different stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog isn\u2019t about the different set-up\u2019s we have run as that would be novel on the product list alone, but about the build of its NEW<\/strong> and final set-up of 4 DD-515-D4\u2019s<\/strong> in a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walling ABTEC1<\/strong> had been a discussion Ashley \u2018MAD BASS\u2019 Burrell<\/strong> & I have had several times in the past year, the only hold back was Ashley\u2019s<\/strong> concern that there would be a significant loss in Sound Quality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After numerous discussions & phone calls with Jassa<\/strong> of Digital Designs Ashley<\/strong> had enough of an idea of how we could wall ABTEC1<\/strong> and still retain the Sound Quality<\/strong> as to be able to demo \u201cNormal\u201d<\/strong> everyday music loud and clear as well as wowing people with the brutality of the \u201cBASS\u201d<\/strong> music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture above is not the master design just so you know, but Dave\u2019s<\/strong> sketch so he can figure out the final adjustments so that the box would fit into ABTEC1<\/strong> and also the cutting\/assembly order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see above the first job was to remove\/dissemble the contents of ABTEC1<\/strong>, Ashley<\/strong> & I took charge of this and I must say I highly enjoyed taking it apart as most of the tool work I usually do these days is mainly maintaining the family car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this was all done it was time to call it a night since we were starting reasonably early the next day due to wanting to get the wall done in one day! Just before closing up we had Ashley<\/strong> return to the workshop due to having no bass, he didn\u2019t even last a minute down the road before returning to get a temporarily Sub-Woofer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we turned up Saturday morning the first thing we did was lay out a plan of execution, once that was sorted I laid out all the equipment that was required of the build and got back to my Saturday Job of distracting customers giving Dave<\/strong> and Ashley<\/strong> the free time to start the prep work on the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the prep work was all done and cut it was now time for Dave<\/strong> to start piecing the box together and as you can see above it is a very tight squeeze (but apparently Dave<\/strong> likes that sort of thing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to a serious note the box was so tight that it had to be trimmed down just a touch compared to the original design by 15mm each side and this might not sound like much but can slightly alter you tune, but since this box is monstrous  I don\u2019t think it would of made a noticeable difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now the box was sized up it and ready for assembly Dave<\/strong> marked out & pre drilled the screw holes, then all three of use got a cordless drill each and went to town on the box (yes I know that sounds really bad). There was an easy 300+ surefast\/fix screws used in fixing this box together and a couple of tubes of glue too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before the box was lifted into ABTEC1<\/strong> I gave the front face & inside of the box a quick coat of primmer and paint, but not before fitting the 12mm threaded rod to reinforce it from the extreme air pressure & vibrations it is bound to see in its lifespan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next on the job list was for Ashley<\/strong> to secure the box, amp & then fit the Sub-Woofers<\/strong>. Once that was all done we had to have a quick listen, which turned into about thirty to forty minutes of trying different tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We soon realised that time had easily past us by and that some of us should really return home to our families, but before doing so Ashley put some Sub-Woofer bars on to stop any accidental damage to the two Sub-Woofers due to the seats being capable of sliding back into them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday came quickly it was now time for the final touches to the front of the wall with Dave<\/strong> making up the two side panels that would house the 2 x DD-VO-B2 Horn Super-Tweeters<\/strong> and 4 x DD-VO-M6x9 Mid-Range Speakers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The end product we ended up with is not only a brutal ground-pounder but also sounds absolutely beautiful on ALL<\/strong> music types\/genres, I found that hoping into ABTEC3<\/strong> after listening to the NEW IMPROVED ABTEC1<\/strong> makes me sad. Don\u2019t get me wrong here the DD-9518-D1-SC-ES<\/strong> on a DD-M4a<\/strong> is ballistic but ABTEC3<\/strong> has so much clarity to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall Ashley<\/strong> has created a beast of a Pajero<\/strong> that sounds so surreal I keep on thinking to myself \u201cHow can I get Ashley<\/strong> to swap cars!\u201d \u2013Lance<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last year ABTEC1 has gone through a few transformations, when I got my grubby hands on it the Pajero it had one DD-9512-D2 facing forward & four DD-SW6.5\u2019s facing the rear door. After that it went through a series of set-ups including four DD-512-D4\u2019s all the way up to […]<\/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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}