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They really should have said "inaudible" rather than undetectable. It is detectable (as they note)... just not as what we think of as sound. [edit - fix; how d
by z9znz 4y ago
They really should have said "inaudible" rather than undetectable. It is detectable (as they note)... just not as what we think of as sound. [edit - fix; how did I leave out words?]
I don't know how common this is now, but at one time it was popular in the car audio world to mount "ass shaker" devices to seats to emphasize bass feeling without requiring the space of a normal speaker. I think cinemas have done this too.
- hamburglar 4y agoIsn’t the ButtKicker effectively a speaker voice coil with a weight attached to it instead of a cone?
- kyle-rb 4y agoTheir specific claim is "not consciously detectable" (different from "inaudible"), which they had a side-experiment to verify: >To confirm that the VLFs were not consciously detectable, 17 new participants completed a two-alternative forced choice task using the same VLF speakers ... Participants performed at chance
- natdempk 4y agoI have to say I think they did something wrong then in their testing of detectability? On a club/concert setup, or even plenty of subwoofers, you can very much feel the 20-40hz range that they are adding/removing in figure C. Something seems off here.
- avereveard 4y agoI know places that do it. One was three block away from where I lived. It made goddamn impossible to sleep, these waves travel trough ground like it's nothing and you don't usually hear them, but when you lay on the bed you can feel them it scrambles your brain.
- woojoo666 4y agoFor a more recent trend, there are now wearable vests that vibrate to the music [1] [2] [1]: https://www.woojer.com/ https://www.woojer.com/ [2]: https://subpac.com/ https://subpac.com/
- shard 4y agoIt's not so recent. The Aura Interactor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor) was released in 1994...
- elif 4y agoBut none of the subjects detected it...