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World's largest horn subwoofer rocks the house to its foundations and beyond
When audio designer Roberto Delle Curti wanted the world’s biggest, baddest subwoofer, he didn’t go prancing off to some snooty audio store. He got out a shovel. Underneath his world-class home theater lurks the Real Total Horn, consisting of two cavities that are three feet deep and 31 feet long. These tunnels function as horns, each driven by eight 18-inch woofers for a total of 16 woofers — along with thousands of watts of raw power.
How low can it go? This “biggest horn sub in the world” can crank out a bass note that’s below 10Hz, which will sound more like an ominous, low ticking noise than music. But imagine the earthquake this monster can create! Way to wake up the neighborhood, Roberto! Good thing he lives in Italy.
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By CJW at 1:39 PM ON 07/16/08
Audiophilia is a mental illness.
That said, I wish I had a basement in my car, so I could build one of these. Maybe if I got an old Greyhound bus....
By Vulcaex at 8:31 AM ON 07/17/08
"This “biggest horn sub in the world” can crank out a bass note that’s below 10Hz"
But can it hit the brown note?
By charlie at 11:27 AM ON 05/30/09
wicked build.
By aholla at 9:42 PM ON 06/07/09
beautiful, sexy, and only speaks when you want it to.
kind of like the perfect mate.
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