[sdiy] soundbug??? (OT)

[James Husted]

on 3/15/02 10:10 AM, Chromatest Pantsmaker at
chromatest.pantsmaker at verizon.net wrote:

> 
> 
> what about this new little device...
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106596,00.html
> 
> soundbug.. like an audio transducer.. stick it onto a desk (with
> suction cup) and it turns the desk into a huge speaker...
> 
> what I want to know, is if it puts out 400 lbs of force, how can they
> stick it onto a window without the window shattering?
> 
> -ben
> 
There used to be devices similar to these sold 30 years ago. I used to run
the light show for a band of my brothers' and the bass player used to use
them. He had a couple of folded horn design cabinets with them screwed into
the cabinet backs. All low end. After each gig he would have to screw the
cabinets back together cause they vibrated apart! On some gigs, if the stage
was right for it, he would take the backs off and lay them flat on the stage
and put some lead stage weights (used to keep scenery in place) on them and
use the whole stage as a low end speaker. He drove them with some old Army
PA system that came in a steel watertight box (green of course). Pretty
wild. Hardly any high end at all. I think the Heath corporation (remember
Heathkits?) sold them for a while. The models I remember were always screwed
into the walls, not suction cupped. The problem is the walls transmit on
both sides of course, yours and your neighbors! They called them "audio
transducers". These would be GREAT for dub and Reggae.
-James
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