Work went well, did some more crazy coding, but more smaller things today. It looks like we're doing a lot with the kiosk stuff, but may be making a lot of changes to the kiosk image. Should be interesting to see what happens. I was notified that a "heavy" box arrived at home as well. Giving that most stuff I've ordered recently is rather light, I figured that'd have to be the tactile transducers (also known as bass shakers), so headed home relatively early/on-time. I immediately flipped over my main movie chair and a chair I use as my footrest, and screwed a transducer into the bottom of each. Then I grabbed some speaker cable, crimped on the ends, grabbed a 20W/channel amp and a subwoofer equalizer, and hooked it all up. I figured I have a decent sub so started rolling off the input on the high end around 60Hz, and since the sub doesn't like real lows and the transducers struggle bumped up 25 and 35Hz a bit. I also patched that in before the compressor as the main reason for that is to avoid blowing the sub or the house structure or some combination. All I can say about them is wow!!! I'm running them at under half their rated power handling, and running decent program material and matched in level with the sub you have no problem feeling the hits. I set it up with music and as long as they're not set unrealistically high they actually fill in very nicely - yes, even on more mellow music which just has deep bass. I ended up watching
Gone in Sixty Seconds since I've seen a lot of my other action flicks recently. My dad actually didn't notice any difference at first since they blended so well, but if they're turned off (or cranked up for a second) it's a very noticable difference. Of course the Dolby Digital trailers were pulled out again to test it out too. The only drawback is now I have cables running all over the floor, and another chair is now stacked full of audio equipment and cables. I think my weekend work is cut out for me - re-racking and recabling all the equipment. :( Oh well, it beats being bored, and it should be very nice when it's done. Although with the other new stuff and especially the automation I'm guessing I'll end up doing it a few times again soon... And now just sitting here it looks like I managed to knock a level off on the sub while I was digging - I hate too much bass (yea, it sounds weird since there's normally so much, but if you pay attention the non-bass levels match the bass properly). :(