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Actual Home Theater Explosions

I just found the greatest way to improve the "earth rattling" sounds that are so impressive from explosions or rolling thunder in movies.

If you have the opportunity to get a second subwoofer for your system, put it IN AN ADJACENT ROOM with the volume way up and the crossover fairly low. The rumble it creates will make you feel like there are actually bombs going off in your house, which may or may not be good thing depending on the structural soundness of your house.

This will obviously not work for rooms that are completely acoustically isolated from other rooms, but for an average home it's amazing.

Note: This is not for casual listening uses, only for movies with serious LFE output. It would be best to turn the second-room subwoofer off for anything but large-scale movies.

-Dusty
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freemand
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Thats intersting Dusty, and I can completley see that giving another demension in the bass. So thunder for instense has a feeling of being outside.

This obviously won't work in all but it sounds like an intersting idea.
freemand
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It sounds like its creating a bigger space for the bass. The bass is expanded in another room creating a larger effect. Seems to make sense.
freemand
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Johnny, beautifully said!! Thats kinda what I was trying to say but not that well put. I think thats whats going on.

I have 3 solid subs in a sound proofed room so adding a 4th may not do much in this set up but I do have a forth in the living room on another system and I may experiment!
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