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Post by clusterchuck on Apr 14, 2013 16:42:31 GMT -5
This guy had the worlds largest folded horn subwoofer built below his listening room. If I had the means, I'd do something similar but with way different cosmetics in the listening space. To put the low frequency potential of this creation in perspective, it has the ability to cause physical pain, inflict permanent hearing damage and actually make your ears bleed. What is most amazing is it could do that with a fairly low powered amplifier. If only I could hear Billy Cobham's performance of Mosaic played thru this system... www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm
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Post by bob0627 on Apr 15, 2013 8:57:03 GMT -5
"To put the low frequency potential of this creation in perspective, it has the ability to cause physical pain, inflict permanent hearing damage and actually make your ears bleed." Anything below 20Hz (16Hz in some cases) is inaudible and I'm not sure how any sound near that can cause what you describe. High frequencies however can certainly cause physical damage. Here's a nice home speaker that's about the (MSRP) price of a very decent car per speaker: floorstandingspeakers.productwiki.com/b-w-nautilus/
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Post by clusterchuck on Apr 15, 2013 15:57:41 GMT -5
"To put the low frequency potential of this creation in perspective, it has the ability to cause physical pain, inflict permanent hearing damage and actually make your ears bleed." Anything below 20Hz (16Hz in some cases) is inaudible and I'm not sure how any sound near that can cause what you describe. High frequencies however can certainly cause physical damage. Here's a nice home speaker that's about the (MSRP) price of a very decent car per speaker: floorstandingspeakers.productwiki.com/b-w-nautilus/Heard the nautilus at one of the local shops. They sound very impressive but I can't take the way they look.. In my opinion $100,000 turntables and $150,000 speaker systems exist because there are people who simply must have things that cost the most. Sure they sound good and some are remarkable industrial designs but there are diminishing returns on such costly items. On the topic of the op subwoofer, low frequencies at high pressures can most certainly inflict pain. If one were foolish enough to test the limits of this one it has the potential to exceed the threshold of pain @ 130db. Infrasonic frequencies at those pressure levels could easily tear ear drums to shreds. At that point blood begins to flow out if the ears and the victim would be permanently deaf. This monster can handle 6,400 watts but produces 120db with a single watt. If they could feed the sub irts full power rating, it would likely destroy itself.
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Post by bob0627 on Apr 15, 2013 17:06:41 GMT -5
Thanks for that information. I totally agree with you on expensive high end audio systems. I love a really good sound and I do like all sorts of music (jazz, rock, popular and even some classical and opera) but I would never spend an unreasonable amount of money on a system. Even if I wanted an exotic system, I would have to have it placed in a room built to handle the acoustics, otherwise I would be defeating the purpose.
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