Xmint
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DSPeaker is taking a box called ShakEQ to CEDIA in Denver at the start of September, and it is the first DSP I have seen built specifically for tactile transducers instead of borrowed from subwoofer duty. It sits between your source or AVR and the amp driving the shakers. Two RCA in, two RCA out, so either a pair of shakers or one shaker plus a sub. It is not an amplifier and it does not replace your ButtKicker or Crowson.
The calibration made me laugh and then think. You put the supplied vibration sensors on the seat, sit on them, and it takes three measurements from slightly different positions, so the transducer, the mounting, the chair frame and your own body mass all land in the measurement. That is actually correct. Anyone who has moved a shaker from a solid riser to a recliner knows the same signal feels like a different product, and until now the only fix was riding the gain until it felt about right.
The feature I would pay for is delay alignment. Tactile energy arriving ahead of or behind the audible bass is what makes a lot of shaker installs feel like a bolted on gimmick, and no receiver on earth gives you a distance setting for a chair.
Bass Extender is where I get twitchy. It manufactures low frequency movement when the mix does not contain any. That is motion smoothing logic applied to your spine. Fine as a toggle, awful as a default, and it will be switched on in every demo at the show.
No price announced. Is anyone here already running transducers through proper processing, or are we all still doing this by ear?
The calibration made me laugh and then think. You put the supplied vibration sensors on the seat, sit on them, and it takes three measurements from slightly different positions, so the transducer, the mounting, the chair frame and your own body mass all land in the measurement. That is actually correct. Anyone who has moved a shaker from a solid riser to a recliner knows the same signal feels like a different product, and until now the only fix was riding the gain until it felt about right.
The feature I would pay for is delay alignment. Tactile energy arriving ahead of or behind the audible bass is what makes a lot of shaker installs feel like a bolted on gimmick, and no receiver on earth gives you a distance setting for a chair.
Bass Extender is where I get twitchy. It manufactures low frequency movement when the mix does not contain any. That is motion smoothing logic applied to your spine. Fine as a toggle, awful as a default, and it will be switched on in every demo at the show.
No price announced. Is anyone here already running transducers through proper processing, or are we all still doing this by ear?
