Worlds Biggest Subwoofer

[Spawn-Inc]

You guys ever see the episode of mythbusters where they built a 5' sub inside a car and powered it off the driveshaft? That was a kick ass idea, but failed miserably!!!

i already said that!!! it didn't work good though. the engine ripped it apart mostly...

[rendermandan]

i already said that!!! it didn't work good though. the engine ripped it apart mostly...

Dooohhh, Sorry I didnt' see your post. I appologize!
At least I knew what you were talking about

[Luke122]

It's not about volume kids.. it's about clarity.

I have an SI Super T-amp (15w per channel) pushing 2-way bookshelf speakers (home built) with 4" drivers and a 1" tweeter. Audio source is a M-Audio Mobile-Pre USB, connected to my Ubuntu laptop, playing FLAC files (lossless audio format).

So crisp and clear that it'll bring tears to your eyes.

[CanaBalistic]

It's not about volume kids.. it's about clarity.

I have an SI Super T-amp (15w per channel) pushing 2-way bookshelf speakers (home built) with 4" drivers and a 1" tweeter. Audio source is a M-Audio Mobile-Pre USB, connected to my Ubuntu laptop, playing FLAC files (lossless audio format).

So crisp and clear that it'll bring tears to your eyes.

How big is an average FLAC file, lets say a 4 min song?

[Canadian Eh?]

I want that woofer! How Much?!?

[Luke122]

How big is an average FLAC file, lets say a 4 min song?

Sorry for the slow reply here... FLAC files (or at least my FLAC files) average about 10mb per minute of audio. Average song is between 31 and 45mb.

[xRyokenx]

Wow... about clarity, my onboard soundcard stopped functioning, so I installed a different sound card, and everything sounded oh so much better, especially since the "new" card handles more channels. Oh, I have most of my songs at like 320kbps, which sounds a lot better than the "standard" 128kbps... but yeah, I'll have to get the lossless format on my PC.

[Luke122]

The difference in imaging is UNREAL. The soundstage is wider, subtle details are more pronounced, and even lots of the real hifi guys I know are getting into lossless digital, as it's "bit perfect". CD's have some flutter and potential bit errors due to variation in surface reading and disc speed, but streaming from a hdd with a buffer is soooo much better.

Lossless vs CD may be hard to hear a difference for most people, but I imagine that someone who would spend $15,000 on a pre-amp, and $25,000 on speakers would be able to tell the difference for sure.

I'm busting my ass to find the link, but no luck so far...
www.canuckaudiomart.com has some great info on it.

[AJ@PR]

Sorry for the slow reply here... FLAC files (or at least my FLAC files) average about 10mb per minute of audio. Average song is between 31 and 45mb.

Hey Lukifer,

Wanted to ask...
Do you rip from CD?
I'd guess the .wav in a CD is higher quality... right? wrong?
Just curious.


Speaking of subwoofers, has anybody heard of the DeathBox?
Here's Death Box II

And here's their House Wrecker

They have another huge box "Jensen-type".
I got to build me some of those in the future.

What do you think about ^^^ those guys?

[The Black Pumpkin]

Actually, FLAC's are just lossless compression, like RAR's. You take a wav file and compress it into FLAC, and you can do the reverse as well.