Officially freaked out!

[justphil]

OK from the start I have loved my TT. I "THOUGHT" I had it in a sweet spot in the room. I wasn't overly happy of the nearfield placement but I really liked the feel.
Well today I decided to move the sub to the front of the listening position and finally got a chance to hear it. I haven't re-ran Audessy yet but plan to in a bit. I know this is going to sound cliche but HOLY GOD ALMIGHTY. We were watching regualr TV and my wife became really upset. She said she was going to get really pissed if it started knocking things off the wall and out of the cabinets. The extension I am getting is truly unbelieveable. The bass is totally different then it was in the previous position. As a whole my HT sounds ungodly amounts better.

I have Kung -Fu Panda saved on our DVR and started it up. It was on the scene where the Tiger (don't know his name) is escaping from the prison. sound waves were insane from the foot stomps and general ambient noises IE: throws and effects. I truly am afraid I may do damage to my home and I swear that.
My god I am in heaven!!!

[Radian]

How about the finger hold at the end of the movie??

[justphil]

I will go to that when the family all wakes up =)

[bzb]

Skadoosh



Crack forms along corner of drywall, exterior wall falls. Wife: "OH MY GOD" You: "awesome."

[justphil]

It really feels like that could happen.

[Mikey]

LONG, long ago, back on Bill's old forum, I recall that a guy damaged his house foundation with T36s.

The most common house damage caused by excessive vibration of bass is "nail pops". The drywall nails pop out a bit, causing little bumps all over your walls.

Beware of old windows which were glazed into place!

Make DAMN sure that everything in your wife's china cabinet is "vibration proof". Plates that are standing-up on plate holders, or leaning against the back wall of the hutch are easy prey. If you can give the china cabinet a good bump with your shoulder and nothing falls, you're probably okay. The LAST thing you want is to damage any of HER good china, stemware, glassware, fancy knick-knacks, etc.

[WB]

The LAST thing you want is to damage any of HER good china, stemware, glassware, fancy knick-knacks, etc.

I have to disagree. There's far too much of that nonsense in most houses. It needs a good culling every once in a while.

[AntonZ]

LONG, long ago, back on Bill's old forum, I recall that a guy damaged his house foundation with T36s.

I do remember this one, reports of the first T36. Found it by googling on "Tuba 36" and "jar", as I recalled there was a jar of mayonaise involved :

HOLY CRAP!!!
Ok now that that is out in the open lets proceed.
My friend drove up from Corpus last night. His cargo included
1 Carvin ProBass500 bass head
1 Carvin DCM2500 power amp
1 Carvin LB76bass guitar
1 Carvin “redeye” 4 x 10 cabinet
Assorted cables
Evil intentions
Ok, I expected the cabinets the Tuba36’s to sound good, that is just a given. But DAMN did they go loud! We ran the rig (which looks utterly ridiculous by the way) full tilt with no low cut engaged. It was quite frustrating trying to get the Magnum15LF woofers to distort or cause throat distortion in the cabinets. The output from the Magnum15LF drivers was MUCH higher than I had anticipated.
Now I am not joking around saying we went to extremes. The low B string on the bass guitar was repeatedly de-tuned way WAY lower till you could easily count the cycles as it swung back and forth over the pickups. With the amp bridged dumping all 2500 watts into the cabinets ridiculous amounts of air was moved. Hitting the bass guitar body with palm of your hand (a favorite effect of ours that routinely bottoms out 18’s) proceeded to knock over beer bottles dumped crap off of a shelf in my pantry (a jar of mayonnaise took a dive and made a horrible mess) and caused my roof to flex. I am not kidding, I stood out side and could here the beams flexing and strange groaning emanating from my roof. My house is only two years old.
The amp was eventually able to get some distortion from the cabinets, throat or driver I could not tell as I was not about to put my head in the horn mouth to do any critical listening. At that level of output you get dizzy being near the cabinets (probably from your inner ear fluid getting moved around) and your vision blurs. So we engaged the low cut on the amp on started on the ultimate volume stomp. Thus far with the low cut engaged the cabinets will not distort in any fashion.
My friend got possessed and went on a freakishly low de tuned bass solo for around half an hour. It was cool to watch the world disappear to him and the sick look come across his face as he put out tones most bass players can’t even dream of. No low-end bass boost was used on the bass head, just some modest compression and the tone knobs on the guitar. The tuba36’s belted out every low tone put to them without breaking up, no matter how hard we tried, and trust me WE TRIED! We turned off the stack around midnight utterly amazed the cops did not show up. We will beat on the rig more today and probe for weaknesses.

A related side note:
My friend happens to live right across the street from a liquor store (how cool is that!). According to the people that work there, when the band practices in a converted garage the low bass notes going through the tuba30 “rattle every damn bottle in the store.”

[CafSentryGnome]

Skadoosh



Crack forms along corner of drywall, exterior wall falls. Wife: "OH MY GOD" You: "awesome."

your mate: "i wonder if it will get bigger, lets find out."

just remember drywall cracks can be fixed with posters, just put them over the top. it was never there.....

[bzb]

The LAST thing you want is to damage any of HER good china, stemware, glassware, fancy knick-knacks, etc.

I have to disagree. There's far too much of that nonsense in most houses. It needs a good culling every once in a while.

[Mikey]

The LAST thing you want is to damage any of HER good china, stemware, glassware, fancy knick-knacks, etc.

I have to disagree. There's far too much of that nonsense in most houses. It needs a good culling every once in a while.

I'm in total agreement with you ... but if you ever want to "get you some" again, you'd better protect that crap. Besides, if she makes you replace that broken crap, it'll cost you cash that would be much better spent on more audio gear!

[el_ingeniero]

The LAST thing you want is to damage any of HER good china, stemware, glassware, fancy knick-knacks, etc.

I have to disagree. There's far too much of that nonsense in most houses. It needs a good culling every once in a while.

Just so YOU don't get culled.

[bgavin]

I have to disagree. There's far too much of that nonsense in most houses. It needs a good culling every once in a while.

Sleeping in the barn is rather nice, this time of year.



I remember thet last time I had to get tough with the missus.
She was down on her knees in front of me...
Saying "get out from under the bed, ya chickenshit"

[Harley]

Sleeping in the barn is rather nice, this time of year.

Not here it ain't - minus 3 degree frost predicted for where I am to be in the morning.

[bgavin]

Yep. We have traded positions once again.

Already, we are on the wane. The sun is up later each day, so the missus is walking with me now.
Summer solstice is a special time of the year for morning people.