Bass Pig's Lair - System Subsonic Test Levitates Carpet

[SkizzoSkizzik]

:)) Fake....=)) The capet is floating? it's only the air pressure coming out to the reflex

[basspig]

@SkizzoSkizzik That's what people think, so I made another video with just the ZR18s on the far left & right to prove that it wasn't the vents. The fundamental 16Hz was over 133dB (ZR18s have linear BL out to beyond 3" excursion. In this test, excursion was around 1/2" peak to peak) and distortion was under 0.1% under these conditions.

[gaaraman082]

Do 35hz!

[TheAmbientSpace]

OMG - a magic carpet!

[jd18504]

nice tv to go along w/ ur system lol....wait that was 2006

[ninalo123]

thats the shit

[jeffy123ification]

Now we're talkin-now that's some BASS !!!!!

[lilhoede1990]

lol id hate to have your power bill. the demand portion especially

[basspig]

@lilhoede1990 Averaging $500/month, with 2hrs weekly use. The big drain is my render farm for my video production business.

[basspig]

@lilhoede1990 We've been averaging $500 monthly this year. 12 years ago, I used the sound system a lot more but the power bill was always around $80. Rates have gone up a lot in 2002 to present. This system gets 2 hrs use per week now and that's about it. My rendering farm eats up the rest of the power around here.

[lilhoede1990]

@basspig lots changed since huh? check my vids out man 18" fi btl in my blazer box getting redone soon. kerf port facing back around 7-7.5 cubes

[Garselo]

I'd love to see this experiment done with a real 32 foot diapason pipe. That would be cool to see. Too bad my speakers start rolling off their bass response around 35 hertz.

[bsod4u2]

Great show BassPig !

Now I understand your crave for majestic,grandiose BASS. Check out my

wall O subs (TC Sounds , ACoupower ,Maelstrom-X ...more )

[basspig]

Thanks.

Acoupower made good stuff. Too bad Carlos Beltran got in trouble with the law. He threw away a good company.

[bsod4u2]

Shhhhhh this is supposed to be a secret !

Yeah I know the story, I have purchased from him, these Acoupowers are clean,clean and mean.

If he was still in business I would have purchased four more 18" .

Who knew it would end this way.

[basspig]

Yeah, the ugly little secret of the audio industry, LoL... Who knows? Maybe there's a warning hidden behind that meaning?

[blueyesxxx]

unbelieveable!!!

[1DanielChristensen]

wow; finally this hits really good. I built an 8 cubic foot ported box with an 18 inch woofer tuned to FIFTEEN HERTZ!!! I am actually gonna bring the tuning freQ up a little; it's too ridiculously low.

[Bassotronics]

I do not know if the carpet is levitating because of the 16hz pressure or the air comming out of the ports.

[nexgenhippy]

133db at 16Hz?? thats serious.

That would give the Matterhorn Sub a run for the money...

[Activethrasher00]

LOL that's fucking hillarious

shoulda let that song play out!!

[1DanielChristensen]

I *accidentaly* built a box TUNED to 15 Hertz! 8 cu ft. bass reflex port 19 inches long and 5 inches in diameter. 15 hertz the cone doesn't move but air pumps out; any higher or lower and it moves.

[basspig]

We boosted the fundamental 16Hz slightly to improve the ratio of fundamental to overtones from other pipes used in the registration. Telarc isn't the greatest at recording organs. I give that title to Bruce Leek at Klavier Records, who made some amazing recordings at the Mormon Tabernacle. No EQ required there!

[1DanielChristensen]

This is very cool. Is that 16 Hertz tone in the "normal" Also Sprach Zarathustra, or is this a mod/remix of it?

[XR50ryder]

WOW.

[BigNickontheDrum]

if I had a system this amazing, this is the music I would play everytime I turned it on. it would properly warm up the cones, and wear out my soul, before anything else even hit the signal chain

[yrpajaillu]

What version you own to Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme to 2001: A Space Oddyssey). My version(original motion picture soundtrack by emi)have nothing under 33hz bass.

[basspig]

This is from the Telarc recording cat # CD-80106, with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.

You're right about the original London recording, which is just 32Hz. Of course, reaching 32Hz back in 1969 was considered spectacular. :-)

[yrpajaillu]

ok, thanks

[croseiv]

Dude you really are a Bass Pig! You win the prize.

[GTModified]

dude! kick ass setup!

throw some drum 'n' bass thru that, it wuld b sick

[vastspace91]

Try some dubstep. Now that's bassy music!

[Enigma415]

Woa... that is one hell of a sweet system! Honestly, you should make a better test for the world to know, you have the power to do it.

[iamspecialtoo]

What do you use for rear speakers in your surround setup? And which hearing aid?

[basspig]

I'm temporarily using a pair of cabinets that used to be AR17s, outfit with Dynaudio woofers with 4" coils and titanium dome tweeters, driven by a single Hafler 500. It's temporary until I build something more intended for this purpose--the AR17s are from my editing suite, but I wanted to hear my GBSO recordings (which, BTW got a rave review from Peter Aczel at Audio Critic) in surround right away and demo the DVDs for associates.

Hearing aid? What's that? :-)

[titanicwhiz]

What i meant to say was, your TV looks small compared to your huge speakers. lol

[basspig]

Yes, I see. I did get a new flat panel display to replace the CRT last March though. So not so bad now. But it's still a crazy setup, out of balance and such...

[titanicwhiz]

You got these huge speakers, then right in the middle you have a tiny ass tv. lol. Cool video though.

[basspig]

Ah, you spoiled kids these days! Anything under 60" plasma is 'tiny'. LoL!

[jebustheone]

I hope hose drivers are mag shielded. poor telly :P

[speeddemon1092]

hehe alls you would see on THAT telly is rainbows. That many speakers wouls so wildly fuck the tvs own EM field the elecron beam wouldnt even hit the screen untill the system was powered down

[BigNickontheDrum]

which would be an awesome reason in and of itself to put that little TV right there!

[speeddemon1092]

:D :D :D :D

[CARBONHIPPIE]

how much did that system cost i want i want

[basspig]

It is difficult to put a precise number on it, because I started building it in the 1970s. I built so much of it myself, saving considerable costs on what would otherwise be custom one-of-a-kind components. The woodwork/cabinet-making notwithstanding, or the savings attained by purchasing some pre-owned components, I still put in tens of thousands of dollars over a 30+ year span.

[CARBONHIPPIE]

ouch but still nice job of it :D good rep

[MrfixitRick]

So maybe the ancients on flying carpets had really really good subs to propel them along ! I was wondering what other " weird things they can do at subsonic frequencies!" that you may have encountered? Thanks for this great contribution!

[basspig]

Back in the 70s, I recall reading books about how the ancient pyramids were built, and one of the theories was that they used sound waves to move the stones. Infrasound is a curious region of the spectrum, somewhat like the physics and supra-light speeds defying all known rules.

[contoursvt]

Good lord. I thought I was insane but I have no words to describe what I just saw. LOL. I'm planning on building a pair of 15" subs using Dayton Reference series in a sealed cabinet powered by my old Soundcraftsmen amp and crossed over with an Audiocontrol Phase coupled activator. Its peanuts compared to this :)

[blazinGT9]

i read somthing about this it's called acoutic levetation

[CerwinVegas]

Can I crash at your place? ha ha really though one quick question, would having those magnets next to the tv screw up the picture? I installed a woofer in a box in my living room, and got to close to the tv and it messed it all up. Nice surround sound lol

[basspig]

The conventional ferrite magnets did cause some problems, which I counteracted by placing weak magents on top of the monitor, to counter the fields from the mids and nearest woofers. Of course, nowadays I have a LCD flatscreen display, so magnets are no longer a problem. The only magnets in the system that are shielded are the Bassmaxx drivers, due to their unique design, all of the field is concentrated in the voice coil gap.

[basspig]

They are. The rolloff is calculated to prevent them from exceeding Xmax at 16Hz, but allows enough signal for them to contribute, how ever small.

[fenril007]

nice system dude..

[elministere]

The electric company LOVES you, dude.

[basspig]

As long as I pay my bill, which averages $416/month.

[VideoJunkei]

Wow- all I can say! I think you need a larger tv, it must be bolted down,right?

[basspig]

It weighs about 100lbs, and sits on a sticky rubber mat, so it's not going anywhere.

New flat panel HDTV is on the basspig dot com web site. I listened to my readers. :-)

[xFuzzyPeaches]

I hope to have a system like that some day...

[kancerzx]

cool..infrasound..

[gogocorrado]

do the low freq sounds ever make you feel nauseous or anxious? how about at the 20hz level?

[basspig]

Below 20Hz, yes. Guests are more sensitive to this than I am. No one has been able to stay in the room. People I've demo'd to have reported symptoms from chest pains to difficulty breathing and nausea.

[7405926]

your trying to copy those guys that used acoustics to create a form of anti-gravity,which is lame because its no where close to anti-gravity,its sound waves,nothing more

[basspig]

I'm not copying anything. This occurance was an accidental discovery and I documented it because I thought it was interesting to see.

[dinesalone]

do you know where i can hear infrasound from a site i have a 7.1 surround system and i have two subwoofers that have two differnt frequency responses one is ment for music and the other one is ment for picking up low ones and i got it from family so dont ask

[basspig]

None that I'm aware of, but there are utilities on the net that allow you to generate sine tones of any frequency. You could synthesize a wav file.

[tzotzo]

carpet flapping ... very funny. Those woofers look like they are going to rip out of the cabinet. Don't get too crazy, I have had 15" driver tear itself up, and it was a very high quality driver. Too high quality!

[basspig]

Ah, a troll, how quaint. :-)

The EVX180Bs are the ones you can clearly see here. They are the midbass drivers. There's an updated video of the flying carpet done with just the Bassmaxx subwoofers, and at a very small fraction of their excursion capability. The Bassmaxx are a different kind of woofer, with a constant BL over many inches of motion. -cont-

[basspig]

-cont-

One driver moves as much air as 8-12 professional sound reinforcement 18" woofers. I made the mistake of buying four, but I was thinking like you "just can't be much better than my old woofers, so I need a lot of them." Big surprise. I was totally wrong.

[jules122006]

arent you'r speakers tuned to hight for thin frequacy to eaven sound good?

u need a nicer tv in between thows big nice speakers

[basspig]

Not sure I understand your first question, but the second question was taken care of earlier in the day. A new flat panel display, four feet across, was installed. Photos to come soon.

[manonthemoon93]

yeahh :D nicee  :)

[JoseLA91]

damn!

[radiator22]

Sweet, Thanx Man

[radiator22]

Nice Electro Voice EVX180'S. But what are the smaller subs at the bottom closest to the tv and what are the speakers at the top closest to the tv?

[basspig]

They are also 180Bs. Six in total. Four Bassmaxx ZR18s and the mids are JBL E120s, the most efficient 12" driver ever built. Too bad they're no longer being made. The subwoofer shootout in New York City just finished up this week with Bassmaxx so far in the lead that when the Bassmaxx subs were being tested, it shook an apartment building ACROSS THE STREET and the tenants on the 5th floor of that building complained. Amazing!

[radiator22]

Nice Electro Voice TL880D's! But what are the subs at the bottom closest to the tv and what are the speakers at the top closest to the tv?

[bewbs1]

where do u get those, i was thinking of putting a home sound system stead of a car system, looks like itd sound better

[basspig]

Much better, as room acoustice are smoother. However, you need about 100 times the acoustic power to achieve the same SPL as in the confined space of an auto interior.

I bought my QSC Powerlights from SoundImage a sound touring company on the west coast. Buying them used is the only way to go. Retail on the amp was $5895!

[barevids]

you can gladly say that you have a flying carpet XD i bet that thing hits like hell

[basspig]

Yeah, most of my guests dart out of the room when "signal present" lights come on the the big QSC amps. A sound level meter at the pole is reading about 130dB at that point, and for most people, that brings on chest pains (based on their description).

[submanxtreme]

nice excusion what size are these

[basspig]

The ones you see making the most movement are Electro-Voice EVX180Bs, however, they are unloaded at that frequency. The ones producing the sound pressure are the Bassmaxx ZR18s, whose cabinets are tuned much lower. They're cones are hardly moving, but they're moving much more air than the EVX180Bs.

[rowanlloyd]

18 inch :)

[siccmad3]

wow with all that dont you need a bigger tv?

[Numbnutsthesqurl]

Thats so sick, I want a few of those for my room haha

[alphamale461]

you know, totally awsome. i had four 15's and two 18's when i was younger in my room and i remember the trance i used to get in listening and feeling it. your video just rekindled my heart. I have a 89 crown vic wagon with six 18's in it now with a total of 6000 peak watts or real life about 2000 watts rms and I love it!! please make some more videos man! have you ever heard of Bass 305?

[dswex]

incredible

[5thgearouttahere]

this man is audio satan, he must be stopped! what sort of music do you listen to basspig?

[basspig]

All sorts of music, from Classical, Jazz, Reggae, New Age, anime soundtracks J-Pop, K-Pop and rock from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Some samples on page 2 of Basspig.com, Hot CD Picks at bottom of page.

[scottschiller]

You sir, are crazy.

A crazy genius, that is. Damn impressive. ;)

[basspig]

It became an addiction over a thirty year span. But now I am not so sure if I am any better offer than a person addicted to alcohol or narcotics. Everyone has a limit, and fortunately, I think I've reached mine.

[carbf1942]

my sub makes the glass in the kitchen cabnets shake but never a rug fly damn that would be great for movies

[teddyyumusic]

jesus christ what a sound system

[dswex]

genius

[logitechsubs]

WOW

[bennums134]

woah.