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Bass sensation like a loud car system in home?

I know this is a bit of a silly question but bear with me here:

What options are there for getting that feeling of a powerful subwoofer vibrating through your body in your home?  I know the easiest option would be to just put a capable subwoofer next to your seating and let it hit as hard as it can.  I'm also not trying to make all of my neighbors hate me so I'm looking for some creative solutions to pulling it off at reasonable residential volumes.

I'm thinking that some combination of tactile transducers in the couch and a subwoofer next to or also installed inside of the couch would get pretty close.  Being right under your body I wonder what kind of decibels would actually be required to get a bass massage going.  Without the sensation of the high volume bass it also might just seem silly and be a complete waste of time aside from watching movies.

Thoughts?
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barts
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I own a pair of Hartley Reference, a full range speaker with the 24" as  the woofers.  My understanding is that the 24"ers are no longer produced and very difficult to find on the open market.  It took me over two years to find a pair on the internet and I bought them of course \8-).

Easier to find the 18" drivers, still few and far between.

OP,  If you really want boom boom then the Hartleys are not for you.  Buy some modern powered sub-woofers.  The Hartleys are very musical and not designed to slam you in the face, they will but I'm not going to find out for how long.

Regards,
barts


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@dizbuster
Funny you should say that because in my original music room (with double hung windows from 1957) I had to chase down all the buzzing and mitigate as I went.  Then I could finally let the Hartleys rip and amazingly to me I cracked all the windows playing DSOTM.  Not due to sound pressure, just those bass notes vibrating them so hard. Sounded wonderful.  And for those of you who have not heard DSOTM on a system that will play below 20hz you would be surprised how much information is down there.
Regards,
barts
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