Vibe's Space Gate 38,800-watt bass tunnel
By Ryan Block 
posted March 22nd 2007 8:06PM
posted March 22nd 2007 8:06PM
posted March 22nd 2007 8:06PM
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Actually, you can go deaf on bass alone. Assuming the db level is high enough, the force of the displaced air [sound] is enough to rupture your eardrums. The frequency might be low, but that doesn't mean it doesn't move any air.
Just because you can't hear it doesn't mean it can't hurt you. You can't see UV, or Gamma Rays, but they can really screw you up. It's all about decibel level (which has very little to do with what you can actually hear).
Looks like the trunk in my old Cadillac.
DO WANT
So if I, at 6 feet tall, stand in there while they crank a 189HZ tone (which has a 6 foot wavelength) through that little setup, will it levitate me like they recently did for that ant?
Stand in that and enjoy your new fallout boy heart beat
While I have no doubt that you could modify your heartbeat with that monster, I don't think you'd be in time with that Hawthorne Heights song you love so much. I think you'd be dead.
You guys should check out Valve Sound System, almost 100,000 watts. They tour round the UK all the time, the maddest Drum + Bass nights ever. Unlucky for you they haven't taken it to the US, although there are plans to get another system to live in the USA.
@james ferretti
too bad dillinja's basslines are all so ridiculously distorted so as to make the awesomeness of the valve sound a moot point...
Looks like 12 amps, player.
Wrong. I see 14 but there is 16. Look at the right side of the amp-wall you can see 2 amps so common sense says that there would be 2 more on the other side. So lets put that all together 14 + 2 + = 16.
also, matt, those black rectangles on the right side might be amps, mounting brackets, or they might be your rectal vibrators. i'm not confident you'd be able to tell the difference.
Sorry to say, it's not about the watts. It's about efficiency. Here's how real men build bass...
http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm#THE%20REAL%20TOTAL%20HORN
...and this is how more men build more real bass... http://danleysoundlabs.com/matterhorn.htm
yo matt, 3 x 4 = 12, and i don't care what's behind; it looks like 12 amps
10 bucks says MTV's Pimp My Ride straps one of these to a 95 Ford Taurus.
you do have a point but if you go to the read artical it also says 16.. maybe they are hidden or maybe those things on the side are them.. who knows.
JF, those 12 "amps" might be just painted cardboard boxes...your point?
well, lebeu, let me spell this out for you. the article claims 36 speakers. the photo shows 12 rows of 3 speakers. it also claims 16 amps. the photo shows 12 amps. the entire jpeg might just be colored pixels...your point?
the point, jf, is that you obviously can't see the back of the structure, and since we can't see the entire picture we must base our knowledge off the article (the most reliable source of information), and so we assume that there are 4 more amps we can't see. not that hard...
hey, alfonzo, they may have 57 amps under the floor and 12 in the arch. There may be hundreds of amps back in the truck. all I'm saying is that there are 12 in the photo. since I don't know you personally I'll assume you have 50 more IQ points that I can't perceive.
Well, JF, you should use your logic coherently: the picture shows 15-17 speakers(can't really say should I or should I not count those two top ones as speakers - after all they look more like a mess). :)
i realize i've been too acidic here, and I apologize. my point is, why release a promotional photo claiming 16 of something and showing 12? it's like claiming your new top-end box has 4 drive bays and releasing a photo with 2.
fair point.
JF, no probs, tongue in cheek... :)
My additional two cents here is that they probably have located them somewhere else because they might use that stand as desk, so it can't be too high - hence they couldn't fit the 4 missing ones on the front...hmmm and they have only three columns there, wouldn't be symmetrical. Heh, maybe they just sucked at "engineering math"... :P
i'm pretty sure those are 2 amps mounted vertically on each side. the real problem here is how i am gonna fit this in my prius
It doesn't make sense to have 16 amps hooked up to 36 speakers. If you want each speaker to receive the same amount of power (presumably their RMS handling value), there's not a way to do it with this configuration, as far as I can tell. 18 amps will work (each amp powering two subs), so will 12 (each amp wired to 3 subs in parallel). My guess is that if these amps are stable to 1-ohm mono, you could wire 3 subs in parallel for a 4/3 ohm load to each amp, and they'll hum happily along.
the bass will make everyone crap their pants
The math:
Vibe's most powerful amp does 2800W max when connected to a 1-ohm mono load. If the system's total power is 38800, you need at least 14 amps to power it.
3 4-ohm speakers in parallel gives you a 1.33-ohm load at the amp. When connected to a 1.33 ohm load, 2800/1.33 ohms = 2156W per amp when connected to the three parallel speakers.
38,800W/(2156W per amp) = 18.0 amps
However, I looked on Vibe's website, and these are dual voice coil 4-ohm subs, which means that wiring three together for low impedance gives you either 2/3 ohms or 8/3 ohms to the amp, neither of which is optimal, and neither of which will get you anywhere near 38800W for 16 or 18 amps.
You could wire 2 subs with all voice coils in parallel for a 1-ohm load but you'd have too hook them up to 18 amps, and then you'd get at total system power of 2800W*18Amps: 50,400W.