Bass Pig's Lair - System Subsonic Test Levitates Carpet

I was playing the opening 16 hertz organ pedal tone from Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme to 2001: A Space Oddyssey) and taking some SPL measurements from the far end of the room. When levels reached 133dB @ 16Hz, the carpeting started to float off the floor! The rest of the building was making terrible noises, like joists snapping and other nasty stuff, so I wasn't about to push things any higher, although I had over 10dB of amplifier headroom left. Those Bassmaxx ZR18s never cease to amaze me with the weird things they can do at subsonic frequencies!

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• Subsonic
• bass
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• ZR18
• basspig
• woofer
• subwoofer
• infrasound
• infrasonic
• levitation
• sound

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[jeffy123ification]

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