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Want to hear what 5 hz sounds like?- Rotary Subwoofer

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:51 am
by selector.dub.u

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:09 am
by parson
neat:
Over the years the generally accepted low frequency limit of hearing has been 20Hz, some suggesting 16Hz. However nothing existed to produce significant enough output to change this belief. This development will spawn new special effects and we will begin to understand the true low frequency limit of human hearing.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:42 am
by selector.dub.u
Parson wrote:neat:
Over the years the generally accepted low frequency limit of hearing has been 20Hz, some suggesting 16Hz. However nothing existed to produce significant enough output to change this belief. This development will spawn new special effects and we will begin to understand the true low frequency limit of human hearing.
i would like to test it out!

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:46 am
by rickdias
selector.dub.u wrote:
Parson wrote:neat:
Over the years the generally accepted low frequency limit of hearing has been 20Hz, some suggesting 16Hz. However nothing existed to produce significant enough output to change this belief. This development will spawn new special effects and we will begin to understand the true low frequency limit of human hearing.
i would like to test it out!
yea man, lets start the quest for the true brown noise. also 7hz loud enough can kill apperantly
In the early seventies the French military built a prototype sonic deathray called "Le Monstre." It was a phased array (row) of resonant tubes powered by a jet engine. Just like radio and medical sonograms, the phased array could be steered. The resonant tubes were 78 feet in length for an extremely directional 7Hz output. This horrific device could kill a man more than a mile away!

* "A 7Hz tone of sufficient amplitude can crack the walls of a masonry building and can affect a phenomenon known as brain entertainment whereby normal brainwave frequencies are reclocked and vital processes are catastrophically disrupted. Individuals, thus 'down converted,' usually die within seconds, though not before experiencing excruciating pain as internal organs are literally churned by tsunamis of air. Terrifying indeed." - Dan Sweeny, WSR v6 n1 issue 32
more bass facts here

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:55 am
by pompende
also a great way to stay cool in the summer?

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:54 am
by deamonds
pompende wrote:also a great way to stay cool in the summer?
lol

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:12 pm
by superisk
Note, the model 17 must be professionally installed in an attic or basement which becomes an infinite baffle.
Forget the car boot Sub, its all about the yard basement Sub :o

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:15 pm
by deamonds
rotary designs are often quite groundbraking, for example the mazda RX-8 is only a 1.4 but because its got a rotary engine the thing fuckin FLYS!!

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:35 pm
by pompende
the youtube video didnt really show it doing anything impressive...and one of the guys says he thinks its going to break...

maybe this really is just a 27 thousand dollar fan lol

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:08 pm
by belb
Nice idea, but doesn't sub bass on vinyl have to cut off somewhere around 20-25hz to stop yer needle jumping? There'd be nothing deeper to play... though it reminds me, i read something in the wire a while back about the hafler trio using a WWII hand-crank sinewave generator to get some proper subsonics going on. Fuckin' old skool.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:50 pm
by ms hathaway
belb wrote: though it reminds me, i read something in the wire a while back about the hafler trio using a WWII hand-crank sinewave generator to get some proper subsonics going on. Fuckin' old skool.
i would pay good money to experience that.

i suppose everyone would need one of these though:

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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:28 pm
by kion
Bring it on - the vinyl doesn't need to go down that far - all you need is a sub harmonic generator wired up to the shiz.

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:01 pm
by selector.dub.u
pompende wrote:the youtube video didnt really show it doing anything impressive...and one of the guys says he thinks its going to break...

maybe this really is just a 27 thousand dollar fan lol

Early conclusions from testing:

http://bassment.wordpress.com/

October 1 st blog entry.

Also how are you going to hear what it sounds like from a youtube link? :)

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:10 am
by pompende
ha ha, and on a laptop at that. was hoping to see the doors wobble, tho.

who are these guys?
when are they going to let someone spin records in that bassment?

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:40 pm
by insine

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:49 am
by selector.dub.u