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?
yukispier

Showing 2 responses by james633

You really just need big subs.  The air volume of a car is very small and they use 12” subs or more so the ratio is crazy compared to a room. 
There are a number of mechanical bass shaper devices you hook up to an amp and you could bolt them to your chairs. Somewhat common in the home theater world but would drive me crazy for music. 
I run two JL audio E112s and don’t get anywhere near the car type of bass for music. If it turned them all the way up they would tap out before it got there. 
Maybe something like the SVS PB16-ultra. They move a lot of air, sound ok. They sound best with all the ports open. The one port closed extended mode causes some chuffing. 

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