Shake Your Home Theater
by Frank Fazio
(Canada)
I have 5 powered sub woofers in my theater and I tried my best to configure them to shake my theater audience when the movie was in one of those heavy bass scenes. I had some success, but I could not get the seat vibrations I was looking for.
I did some research and came across 'tactile transducers', or as they are commonly called, bass shakers.
These little bundles of joy (imagine a hockey puck on steroids) take the signal from your subwoofer and convert it to a corresponding vibration. Some people attach them to their car seats to get that extra kick when playing heavy bass music, and others install them in their home theater seating for movie explosions.
When I was in the construction phase of my theater, I looked into the possibility of incorporating them into my seating arrangement, but I decided against it at the time for a number of reasons, including price, size and availability. Since then, they have come way down in price and come in a variety of wattages.
I searched high and low for these shakers over the years after my theater was completed, and I had found that the price and sizes had dropped dramatically. I was really excited, because this meant I could achieve the next level of wow from my audience. So, I went ahead and bought four 50 watt Aura Bass shakers with a 250 watt amp from a company that was selling on Ebay because they were going out of business. I paid peanuts compared to what I would have spent if I would have bought them years before.
I received these shakers in the mail, and I quickly went to work on deciding how I should incorporated these 4 things to get the maximum bang for my buck. I ended up installing two shakers under the first row of 4 seats, and two more under the second row of 4 seats.
The configuration I chose worked perfectly. I have adjusted the settings on my amplifier for the maximum impact. Now, when people come to watch movies in my home theater they feel the explosions like never before. I have a true home theater that can produce excellent video, audio and movement.
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