Prepare to have many moving experiences with your bass shakers.
Illustration by Damien Scogin
LET’S RUMBLE
Hack your couch to give you a kick in the pants.
Bass shakers are like the rumble packs in a Playstation or Xbox game controller. They make whatever they’re attached to rumble when they get a signal from the LFE (low frequency effects) channel of your audio system. That means when the T-Rex puts its foot down in Jurassic Park, you don’t just hear it ... you feel it.
You can buy an $800 shaker system from a commercial outfit like Buttkicker or Clark, or you can put the components together yourself for as little as $30. I’ve ...
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