| Are you upsetting your neighbors with that wireless | | | | Today, wireless surround sound systems exist to do |
| surround sound system? Why not dial the volume | | | | exactly this in your home theater, helping to reduce the |
| down, kick in a pair of unobtrusive Bass Shakers, and | | | | difference between the movie house and "in house" |
| still get the same effect. | | | | movie viewing. More exciting, however, has been the |
| Once upon a time, in the good old days when I was a | | | | recent development of an audio technology much |
| boy, you would head off to the cinema in the | | | | simpler than any wireless surround sound system. I'm |
| weekend with your siblings in tow, allowing your | | | | talking about tactile transducers, or Bass Shakers, as |
| parents a few hours of relief from the highly stressful | | | | they are more commonly known. Instead of depending |
| realities of parenting in the seventies. Or something like | | | | on a wireless surround sound system to deliver the |
| that. To be honest, I don't think my parents knew how | | | | sensation of "being there", tactile transducers generate |
| good they had it back then. We lived at the edge of | | | | very low frequency vibrational energy that can literally |
| the world, or as close as you can get to it before | | | | be felt throughout your body. Bass shakers allow you |
| falling off the map--in the trouble-free little city of | | | | to experience every thump, thrust and shaking motion |
| Auckland, New Zealand. Either way, off to the cinema | | | | that the characters in your movies are feeling. By |
| we would go, every weekend. Like dutiful clockwork | | | | attaching a transducer to a solid surface, like the |
| children of the corn fields, sunshine or rain, good movie | | | | hardwood backing of a home theater lounger, these |
| or total stinker. Actually, it's a wonder my force-feed | | | | vibrations pack an emotional wallop when the storyline |
| diet of Tarzan, Clint Eastwood, and Bruce Lee did me | | | | action steps up. |
| no lasting harm. Somehow I survived to adulthood, | | | | When that *thing* jumps out of the closet on screen, |
| retaining my childlike indulgence for suspended disbelief | | | | you'll be jumping out of your chair! When those naval |
| in a darkened viewing room, minus the mandatory box | | | | guns start pounding in "Sink the Bismarck", or that |
| of chocolate-centered Jaffas, which I have neither | | | | T-Rex bellows in "Jurassic Park", you'll feel it in your |
| seen nor tasted now for perhaps thirty years. | | | | bones. Once you have experienced a Bass Shaker at |
| Now, there's a reason people go to movie theaters, | | | | play, that plain old home theater surround sound |
| and it's one that likely factors into why I remember that | | | | system simply will no longer be enough for you. |
| part of my childhood so well. Watching movies in a | | | | If you are really adventurous, handy with tools, and |
| cinema is nothing like the experience at home. At least, | | | | have lots of time on your hands, you can buy tactile |
| it was not back then. The big screen was essential to | | | | transducers separately and install them any place |
| "losing yourself" in the fabricated reality of a big studio | | | | where you might also hook up ordinary speakers, |
| production. But, contributing just as much to the | | | | including inside your car, if you like. But for the rest of |
| success of this movie magic was the concept of | | | | us there is an easier option. Wireless Bass Shakers |
| surround sound--having the aural component of the | | | | are built into many models of home theater loungers, |
| experience assault you from multiple directions at | | | | including the Metro, Garrick, Este, and Rodeo models |
| once. If I was an engineer I'd probably tell you that, by | | | | found on No wires, no installation, no fuss. In fact, |
| combining the sound from a number of separated | | | | there's no need even to send your kids off to the |
| speakers in a coordinated way, it is possible to create | | | | movie theater by themselves anymore. Not when your |
| a spatial imaging component to the movie-going | | | | family can share together all the thrills, and now spills, |
| experience that your television just cannot reproduce. | | | | of modern day movie viewing in the comfort of your |
| In layman's terms: surround sound just pulls you into the | | | | own home theater. |
| screen. | | | | |