APRIL FOOLS! A look back on DD Audio’s best practical jokes

If you’re new to DD Audio, you may not have noticed that we can be a bit mischievous on and around the first of April. Here’s a look back at some of the crazies April Fools product launches in car audio!

We went mad scientist style in 2024 merging our end-of-the-line Z4 Series subwoofer with our tried and true SL600 Slim Series of Subwoofers. This resulted in our first ever 32″ SLZ32 Slim Z Subwoofer with a 4″ voice coil and a whopping 6000W of power handling! Pre-orders are still being taken as of today.

They don’t call us king of the 8″ subs for no reason. In 2023 we introduced some upgrades to our beloved super 8: The 2508 “GINORMOUS” Revision. A 5 roll Hextuple-VROM updated hyper-throw mini sub, capable of 16.4 inches of excursion! The first woofer to excur TWICE its diameter! The motor itself was composed of 16 equal magnet segments polarizing a flux region circumnavigating a 6 inch voice coil. Sheesh!

2022 was big in the Non-Fungible Token market, so of course, we announced a bold departure from the traditional manufacturing and development of audio products, and the warm embrace of a new world, in which all DD products are one-of-a-kind, digital assets. All DD AUDIO products would be sold (or auctioned) strictly as NFTs. We had people calling in left and right trying to get a piece of the action, it must have been because of the super realistic video we made.

In 2021 we solved a major pain in the @ss part of system installations. That’s right, all your grounding needs and desires filled by our proprietary, low impedance earthing point: The DDirt-ODAG (OctoDouleAught Ground). Really though, this would be so much easier (for some).

2020 was a year most of us want to forget, so let’s not even talk about it.

In 2019 we really wanted to show off the ability to customize our Made in USA subwoofers with our in-house capabilities, so we introduced the newest custom performance option available: the Black Angus Fibre (BAF) composite cone making it’s debut on the world’s first ever Jerky Speaker.

In 2018 we introduced the DXB-6.5.8.1 TRUE Surround Headphones; and for those who wanted one, sorry, it still not a real product.

April Fools 2017 brought the announcement of the next-gen miniZ (ESP8) Design. DD Audio let everyone marinate in the “joke” for a full month before pulling the rug out from hardcore DD Z fans by simply adding it to their line of available products. Reddit user ThirstyChello said it best: “The madmen! they actually did it!”.

2016’s practical joke had us playing god with Accelerated Force Mechanism technology when we introduced the “World’s First Ever Intelligent Subwoofer”, the SPG Z6-30. This sub / amp combo featured 26 radically distributed intelligent electromagnets and operated at 30,000 watts RMS. We would have loved to release such state of the art – work of art – to the public. Sadly, according to legend, the AI program used to control the magnets uploaded itself to the cloud and self-destructed its former housing along with all the R&D project notes.

Before there was the mini… Before there was intelligent… There was EXTREME! In April of 2015 DD Audio rolled out a sub so big and powerful that three years later customers still ask when it will be back in stock. With a 16.25” mounting depth and a low end operation at 110v, the SW6.5 Extreme may not have been practical for mobile audio rigs, but it was perfectly practical for an April Fools joke. Reddit user nocarier said he was fooled all the way up until the displacement spec of “3.8 Pony Kegs” while Reddit user bzzeigler simply noted that “Digital Design has always been at the forefront of innovation!”

Of course, the fan favorite on this list dates back to 2010, when DD Audio showed off their DDZ-Solanum Tuberosum 3000. Powered by the DD Z Subwoofer’s electromagnetic interpolating macro cylinders and assisted by Astroglide lubrication, this high velocity solanum tuberosum cannon (potato gun) offered the hand built quality craftsmanship customers come to expect from DD Audio along with DARPA level engineering. This would have been an entry into countless new markets simultaneously as it was perfect for outdoor family fun, home defense, education and various military applications.

DD Audio is consistently upgrading and inventing real audio products available for purchase at authorized dealers and online. Around the first of April next year, you will be so used to the fantastic, you may just believe their latest gag is the real deal… and who knows… it could very well be.