Tuesday, May 24, 2005
My couch hack is finished!
I got my Onkyo TX-8211 today and I hooked it up to the bass shakers that I installed in the couch over the weekend. I'm listening to The Roots "Things Fall Apart" CD right now and the sensation of the bass shakers is awesome. It's better than awesome.
This is definitely the best add-on I've done to my home theater in years.
If you've got an old receiver, you can't go wrong picking up a $30 pair of bass shakers and building them into your system.
I have the capacity in the new receiver to add to more shakers (since I wired them serially). I might eventually add a couple more in the back of the couch so that they hit your lower back.
UPDATE: I tried them out with the final battle scene in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" using the discrete 6.1 soundtrack and the effect was even better than with a CD. I could feel every footstep of the approaching army and every impact of the battering ram. Amazing!
I got my Onkyo TX-8211 today and I hooked it up to the bass shakers that I installed in the couch over the weekend. I'm listening to The Roots "Things Fall Apart" CD right now and the sensation of the bass shakers is awesome. It's better than awesome.This is definitely the best add-on I've done to my home theater in years.
If you've got an old receiver, you can't go wrong picking up a $30 pair of bass shakers and building them into your system.
I have the capacity in the new receiver to add to more shakers (since I wired them serially). I might eventually add a couple more in the back of the couch so that they hit your lower back.
UPDATE: I tried them out with the final battle scene in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" using the discrete 6.1 soundtrack and the effect was even better than with a CD. I could feel every footstep of the approaching army and every impact of the battering ram. Amazing!
¶ 7:25 PM 
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