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Silent Subwoofers ie: Buttkicker -your thoughts?

I am a huge movie fan, and have finally completed my theatre room. I have one final question, does anyone out there have any experience with the 'silent subwoofers' such as the Buttkicker made by Berkline. They are generally used to mount to a chair or couch and shake without making any noise. Their purpose is to make your couch feel like it is rumbling when a volcano erupts or when a building blows up.

Are these things for real or are they cheap gimicks that are useless???
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steuspeed
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Cheap Gimicks.

If you want to go to the next level for home theater you need D-BOX motion seat platforms. After selling and designing high end home theaters for 10 years it was my first ah-ha moment.

http://www.d-box.com/2008/product_movies.html
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I am not sure where pricing is these days as I have been out of the business for a while. They now offer the chairs with the built-in motion legs. These were supposed to be a more affordable option.

As far as available movies they are constantly adding to the library, and they won't miss doing any action movie you want. Effects are beyond just rumbles and explosions. While watching the Matrix when Neo steps out on the scaffolding. you start to sway around. This was VERY convincing while watching 100" screen. I was like get me off of this I want back in the office NOW! Whew... cool I gotta have one of these someday :) Yeah, it's a lot more $$$ than butt kickers, but many on these forums could easily afford it. Movies and video games will never be the same.

In the future D-box systems may be installed in theaters. Higher priced tickets would get you the premium motion seats.
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