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| surround sound system? Why not dial the volume | | | | of an audio technology much simpler than any wireless |
| down, kick in a pair of unobtrusive Bass Shakers, and | | | | surround sound system. I'm talking about tactile |
| still get the same effect.Once upon a time, in the good | | | | transducers, or Bass Shakers, as they are more |
| old days when I was a boy, you would head off to the | | | | commonly known. Instead of depending on a wireless |
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| allowing your parents a few hours of relief from the | | | | "being there", tactile transducers generate very low |
| highly stressful realities of parenting in the seventies. Or | | | | frequency vibrational energy that can literally be felt |
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| lived at the edge of the world, or as close as you can | | | | that the characters in your movies are feeling. By |
| get to it before falling off the map--in the trouble-free | | | | attaching a transducer to a solid surface, like the |
| little city of Auckland, New Zealand. Either way, off to | | | | hardwood backing of a home theater lounger, these |
| the cinema we would go, every weekend. Like dutiful | | | | vibrations pack an emotional wallop when the storyline |
| clockwork children of the corn fields, sunshine or rain, | | | | action steps up.When that *thing* jumps out of the |
| good movie or total stinker. Actually, it's a wonder my | | | | closet on screen, you'll be jumping out of your chair! |
| force-feed diet of Tarzan, Clint Eastwood, and Bruce | | | | When those naval guns start pounding in "Sink the |
| Lee did me no lasting harm. Somehow I survived to | | | | Bismarck", or that T-Rex bellows in "Jurassic Park", |
| adulthood, retaining my childlike indulgence for | | | | you'll feel it in your bones. Once you have experienced |
| suspended disbelief in a darkened viewing room, minus | | | | a Bass Shaker at play, that plain old home theater |
| the mandatory box of chocolate-centered Jaffas, | | | | surround sound system simply will no longer be enough |
| which I have neither seen nor tasted now for perhaps | | | | for you.If you are really adventurous, handy with tools, |
| thirty years.Now, there's a reason people go to movie | | | | and have lots of time on your hands, you can buy |
| theaters, and it's one that likely factors into why I | | | | tactile transducers separately and install them any |
| remember that part of my childhood so well. Watching | | | | place where you might also hook up ordinary |
| movies in a cinema is nothing like the experience at | | | | speakers, including inside your car, if you like. But for |
| home. At least, it was not back then. The big screen | | | | the rest of us there is an easier option. Wireless Bass |
| was essential to "losing yourself" in the fabricated | | | | Shakers are built into many models of home theater |
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| multiple directions at once. If I was an engineer I'd | | | | family can share together all the thrills, and now spills, |
| probably tell you that, by combining the sound from a | | | | of modern day movie viewing in the comfort of your |
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