Sound should be more than just heard. It should be felt, pulsing through your body like a grenade exploding behind you, the rumble of heavy turbulence, or footsteps around the corner. Our superior audio products combined with real tactile feedback provide a complete sensory experience and increased situational awareness.

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How Can I Actually Feel Sound?

A bass shaker operates in much the same way as a normal electrodynamic loudspeaker. The shaking action comes from a "voice coil" which is spring-mounted within a narrow gap in a powerful magnet. When current passes through the coil, it creates a magnetic field, and that field pushes the voice coil one way or the other, depending on the direction of the current. Send the coil electricity modulated by an audio signal and it will vibrate in synchronization with that signal.

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In a normal loudspeaker, the voice coil is connected to the speaker cone, and that lets it "couple" to the air, creating sound waves. The cone moves back and forth and creates the same compression and rarefaction waves that any object vibrating at the same frequency will.  In a bass shaker, there's no cone and rubber or paper cone surround; instead, there's the transducers located on the top of the shaker, and the voice coil has a piece of metal connected to it. The metal oscillations shake the body of the transducer and whatever it's connected to, while still allowing the coil to move freely. So you get a clear sound, smooth bass vibration and not an obnoxious buzz.

Transducers in the AudioFX headset and Intensor gaming chair respond to the low bass frequencies, some even below a level typically heard by the human ear. These frequencies are what are then transformed into the vibration effect that makes these products so special. Not only do you get to literally feel the action like you would if you were sitting on a subwoofer, but because in a headset you get true L/R stereo separation, you get our exclusive directional force feedback. This means you can actually feel sounds from the direction in which they are originating, such as footsteps approaching from your left. Additionally, the sensation is sensitive enough to differentiate between the rumbles of a Cessna engine compared to the Concorde.