{"id":63,"date":"2012-11-26T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T00:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-02-09T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:12:01","slug":"abtecs-new-ddz18d1-5-m4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/abtecs-new-ddz18d1-5-m4a\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTEC\u2019s New DDZ18D1.5 & M4A"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was told we were getting a DD Audio Z18<\/strong> for the back of the trusty old Pajero I was\u00a0overwhelmed with excitement, so much excitement that all I wanted to do is go and tell people like what a 5 year would do when he gets a new Tonka Tow-Truck for his birthday!<\/p>\n

The only thing with this was that I was sworn to secrecy and wasn\u2019t allowed to tell anybody, and anyone that knows me well would know this was very hard for me to do!<\/p>\n

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At this stage I thought it was about time we got this beast out of its cage! So I jumped right in to lift it out, for some reason it didn\u2019t like me getting my grubby fingers on it so the Z18<\/strong> decided to bite them on the way out causing me to be not only the first person to touch a Z18<\/strong> in New Zealand but also the first to bleed all over one too!<\/p>\n

After a spoonful of harden-up juice and too-much company time standing there\u00a0glaring at the Z18<\/strong> like a possum hypnotised by a cars head-lights, I moved out of the way so our MD could take some more photos. I must say, it looks good in the photos but they don\u2019t do the workmanship justice tho. The handmade workmanship is nothing short of PERFECT!<\/p>\n

Before I forget to mention it. If you think that a $8999 RRP sub-woofer wouldn\u2019t sell very well, I am glad to say that you would be very wrong as our Z18<\/strong> is the 67th one built in 2012 and over 500 have been sold worldwide!<\/p>\n

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Now onto the DD Audio M4a<\/strong>. Like the Z18<\/strong> I did expect the M4a<\/strong> to be quite weighty and\u00a0sizeable, what I didn\u2019t expect was that the box housing it was going to be one foot wide and four foot long!<\/p>\n

This got us replanning the layout inside the Pajero as the space we allocated for the M4a<\/strong> just wasn\u2019t going to cut it. Lucky for us the box design we are using for the Z18<\/strong> will allow us to place the M4a further back from where we\u00a0originally\u00a0planned.<\/p>\n

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One thing I must say about DD Audio<\/strong>\u00a0amplifiers is that I love how simplistic they look and the way they preform is far beyond there RMS ratings that is for sure! I am personally excited and can\u2019t wait to hear this set-up once it is fully installed and run in. I am pretty sure the rest of the ABTEC<\/a><\/strong> Team feels the same way and can\u2019t wait to SPL it!<\/p>\n

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When I was told we were getting a DD Audio Z18 for the back of the trusty old Pajero I was\u00a0overwhelmed with excitement, so much excitement that all I wanted to do is go and tell people like what a 5 year would do when he gets a new Tonka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}