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  1. Re:So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor

    I sometimes bookmark interesting slashdot links for future world domination plans. When you mentioned speakers I remembered these two links, and I can only conclude:

    this + that = EPIC WIN

  2. Re:Audiophile? by databyss · · Score: 1 · on iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download

    This guy is an audiophile: http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm

    Not some kid who bought a song on iTunes.

  3. Re:Power versus Frequency by RPI+Geek · · Score: 1 · on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer

    I agree with you that this is probably not the most powerful subwoofer out there, but I think that this one might be in the running.

  4. Don't think so... by onthefenceman · · Score: 1 · on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer

    Check out this subwoofer...maybe it can't reproduce quite as low, but I guarantee that at the frequency those "ports" are tuned to it would be louder.

  5. More Powerful Custom Sub-Woofer by ty_kramer · · Score: 1 · on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer

    Slashdot ran this story 1.5 years ago about this gigantic custom sub-woofer. I think it goes to 11.

  6. Talking about subwoofers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer

    Check out this beast:
    http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm
    Time to remodel your basement?

  7. Real subwoofers drive the floor by Animats · · Score: 1 · on Death Star Subwoofer

    That's nothing. This is a serious subwoofer.

  8. That's not a subwoofer.... by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Death Star Subwoofer

    THIS is a subwoofer.

  9. it's not a giant subwoofer, it's a giant enclosure by iamhassi · · Score: 2 · on Giant Sub-Woofer
    From the article:
    "Royal Device has on its own developped and built the biggest subwoofer of the world... SUBWOOFER horns are built underneath the floor in a cavity of 1 meter deep. Each horn is driven by 8 x 18" (47 cm) woofers. "

    18"? That's a pretty common size, nothing special there.

    Only thing this guy did different was dig a pit and put them in there, making a giant enclosure for the subwoofers.

    A subwoofer is defined as a "A subwoofer is a loudspeaker device which reproduces sub-bass frequencies below about 80-100 Hertz" and a loudspeaker is defined as a "a fibrous semi-rigid cone and attached to the apex of the cone is a coil of fine wire (usually copper), called the voice coil or moving coil." So according to the definition of "subwoofer" all he has is 18" subs, not the "biggest subwoofer of the world" by far.

    What he has is the largest enclosure, and I'm not even sure if that's right because there are many theaters and amphitheaters designed from the ground up to amplify and direct the sound of bass frequencies which is really all that his enclosure does.

    They guy also claims to have the "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world", but at 6.95 x 8.70 meters (22.8 x 28.5 feet, ~650 sq ft) I have my doubts about that claim too, especially since it has a lcd projector in there so it would have to compete with all those privately owned theaters. I've read that Bill Gate's house has a 1,500 sq ft theater, triple the size of this guy's "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world".