Room shakers?

[ChadTower]

While  I'm working on cabs, I'm also getting around to designing a theater room for my basement.  Does anyone have any experience with room shakers such as this one?

http://www.smarthome.com/82572.HTML

[Zathras]

I don't personally have any experience using them but I have almost picked up some tactile transducers before.

The one you linked to seems EXTREMELY expensive though.

Let me see if I can find some of the old links for much cheaper ones.

[ChadTower]

I don't personally have any experience using them but I have almost picked up some tactile transducers before.

The one you linked to seems EXTREMELY expensive though.

Let me see if I can find some of the old links for much cheaper ones.

Wow, good to know... good to know.  I don't know anything about this portion of home theater.

[Zathras]

Ok the ones talked about a lot on the Home Theater Forum are the Aura Bass Shakers.  I'm assuming they are not quite as powerful as the one you linked but MUCH friendlier on the pocketbook (and you can always add more).

They are available at PartsExpress.com for $29.80 a pair via a factory buyout they are having at the moment (retail is $100)

Here is a HTF thread talking abou them.

[ChadTower]

Ok the ones talked about a lot on the Home Theater Forum are the Aura Bass Shakers.  I'm assuming they are not quite as powerful as the one you linked but MUCH friendlier on the pocketbook (and you can always add more).

They are available at PartsExpress.com for $29.80 a pair via a factory buyout they are having at the moment (retail is $100)

Here is a HTF thread talking abou them.

Wow... thanks for the info.  I'm horribly tempted to buy 4-5 pairs right now.

[Zakk]

I just wonder... When I installed 2 subs for my home theater, I spent weeks trying to find all the bits and pieces that were humming and rattling in the walls, ceilings etc.  Drove me nuts for the first while.  And it wasn't the HUGE booms that do it, it was certain frequencies.  The big booms would affect the doorframes 2 stories up (the system is in the basement).  If the doors were closed up there, they would hum if the bass got crazy.  My wife was screaming about it, and humming and screaming is a horrible combination!
 Point is, if these things are designed to shake instead of make sound, it might be even worse than what I had...although I'm sure they wouldn't shake doors 2 levels away (?).  Just a thought!

[Tailgunner]

That's a situation where the Aura Bass Shakers would work better. You could put a couple in the couch framing and feel that deep bass, yet the amount they would transfer to the floor would be minimal so you wouldn't effect the rest of the house.

I have a couple sets in different cars, and I picked up 4 more sets for various projects when I saw them in the other thread. They work great for that deep bass that you can feel, but ideally you'd still want a set of mid-bass speakers to cover the audible low frequencys. In both cases you can get away with a lot less amplifier than needed to drive big subwoofers.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, the whole point of these is to ISOLATE the vibrations, which is why they are installed locally to where you want to feel it.  With these you can turn that subwoofer down and your wife too.