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Death Star Subwoofer
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:35 AM
from the because-you-can dept.
from the because-you-can dept.
bmfs writes "A subwoofer so powerful it could loosen fillings, shake out the cholesterol from arteries and generally make a lot of noise. It seems that the Death Star, ignoring the weakness that ultimately lead to its complete destruction, was a pretty good design... so someone made his own (with a lot of help from a housemate). The Death Star Subwoofer is currently up for sale on Ebay."
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So... I see your Bass is as big as mine... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So... I see your Bass is as big as mine... (Score:5, Funny)
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A disturbance in the Force (Score:5, Funny)
Just like George Lucas' legal team!
death star? (Score:5, Funny)
*pauses to pour out a 40 for my fallen homies who have joined the force*
Sadly, Even When Added To Your Sound System.... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:death star? (Score:5, Funny)
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Even more cool... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Even more cool... (Score:5, Funny)
These photos betray enough of the design to build your own fully armed and operational battle station.
Many Bothans died to bring us this information.
Sorry.
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Re:Even more cool... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Even more cool... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a trap!
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Re:Even more cool... (Score:3, Funny)
(Well, it's more original than "Deaf Star", but only just)
Obligatory reference... (Score:3, Funny)
of this fully armed and operational BASS STATION"
Re:Obligatory reference... (Score:5, Funny)
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handwaving (Score:5, Funny)
I take "Paraphrase This!" for $500 (Score:4, Insightful)
"a subwoofer so powerful it could loosen fillings, shake out the colesteral from my arteries and generally make a lot of noise. It seemed to me that the Death Star, ignoring the weakness that ultimately lead to it's complete destruction, was a pretty good design... so I made my own (with a lot of help from my then housemate)."
from the post:
"A subwoofer so powerful it could loosen fillings, shake out the cholesterol from arteries and generally make a lot of noise. It seems that the Death Star, ignoring the weakness that ultimately lead to its complete destruction, was a pretty good design... so someone made his own (with a lot of help from a housemate). The Death Star Subwoofer is currently up for sale on Ebay."
Hmmm...the copy and paste is strong in this one. At least he fixed a couple spelling/grammar errors.
Re:I take "Paraphrase This!" for $500 (Score:5, Funny)
No, that was probably the editors!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
HAHAHAHahahaha...
ahahahhahah
hehe... heh.
*wipes a tear from his eye*
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So... (Score:5, Funny)
Funniest eBay listing I've seen in a while (Score:5, Funny)
Q: Look at the size of that thing!
A: Cut the chatter Red 2.
Re:Funniest eBay listing I've seen in a while (Score:5, Funny)
Q: If your "deathstar" subwooofer had a stand-up fight with a "borg cube" all-in-1 hi-fi then who'd win and how?
A: The Death Star can destroy a planet. I can't imagine it would struggle against a gramophone with a built in wireless and auto-reverse cassette deck.
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Re:Funniest eBay listing I've seen in a while (Score:5, Funny)
Q: I would like to see if your Death Star subwoofer would go well with the Alliance tweeter I built, but I live in the US, so it's too far away.
A: The US is too remote to make an effective demonstration, but don't worry, we'll deal with your treble friends soon enough.
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Idiots never learn from history. (Score:5, Funny)
These suckers have put in yet another thermal exhaust port that would be the prefect fit for a couple of proton torpedoes. Idiots never learn from history. The Bose alliance is going to have a field day with this.
Re:Idiots never learn from history. (Score:3, Informative)
Bose speakers use ports too. I'd love to shove a torpedo into one.
Being only slightly better than Monster cable, they achieve much of their better sound through marketing.
I'd say they are a lot better than nothing, but I think I've gotten far better sound, and better for the money, from Canadi
Looks great... unfortunately... (Score:5, Funny)
Reportedly, the force was with it.
Chavs (Score:4, Insightful)
Just like many of the chavs who drive past my office every day.
I'm about 250 yards from the road, and mini-roundabout they have to stop at. There are doubled glazed windows, and insulated timber walls between too.
Some of these chavs have bass so loud and powerful, it physically hurts even when sat at my desk, or is low enough to give people headaches, or pop ear drums like when leaving a tunnel.
Deathstar has nothing on these people, if you can call them people anymore... Zombies probably covers it better, what with their pickled brains and all.
Re:Chavs (Score:4, Funny)
But I've got SO many better things to do with my time and money that I'd have to be immortal and already have my own space program, before I'd bother with this.
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For those who say (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! (Score:3, Interesting)
Recipe (Score:5, Funny)
2. Put it up on eBay
3. Notify Slashdot
4. Profit!
Re:Recipe (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Recipe (Score:4, Funny)
where are modpoints when I need them!
Evidently, they have fallen into the wrong hands.
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No shipping? (Score:3, Funny)
That's not a subwoofer.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:That's not a subwoofer.... (Score:4, Funny)
I see your folded horn and raise [arcanemethods.com] you one flatbed-mounted horn...
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nitpick... (Score:4, Insightful)
When's my turn? (Score:4, Funny)
Tomorrow on Ebay... (Score:3, Funny)
- shadowmatter
I've got a bad feeling about this... (Score:3, Funny)
all your vibes are belong to us
That ol' WAF again (Score:3, Interesting)
Obviously, the power of this deathstar pales in comparison to the power of the Wife Acceptance Factor (OK girlfriend, same thing basically in this case) How about Wife Acceptance Force?
WAF -Bane of audiophiles, pretenders and geeks in general
What a chump. (Score:5, Insightful)
Next she's slowly going to start getting rid of his bachelor friends, the better to control him. This is why any reasonable man should steer clear of "modern" women. Start your own business, invest well, buy and build cool stuff, and always keep women at arm's length - lest you become a pussywhipped fool who replaces his brilliantly engineered subwoofers, motorcycle, and sports car with window treatments, no sex, and a minivan.
Dumbass.
The Plans (Score:4, Informative)
Now is see why it weighs 65Kilos.
Can it do the brown note?? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd bid if it could produce a sound that would make me shit my pants [wikipedia.org].
oh, CRAP, get an EV 30W and do it RIGHT. (Score:4, Interesting)
some notes. excellent article in a 1960s popular electronics on building it. you need a reflex or exponential horn cabinet, depending on how many mcf of room you want to rattle. cutoff frequency is 80 HZ, don't drive it any higher. you will need to use at least 1-1/4 plywood with stout internal bracing, screws, and glue to put the cabinet together, and 1-1/2 inch is better. "stout internal bracing" means clear hardwood 2x4 or larger.
this speaker was also used in the EV Patrician speaker system back in the day, as well as electric organs for churches and halls. they are very easily damaged in transit, and should be shipped in either the factory box or the original cabinet it was found it.
last ones I saw on eBay were $3500 each. they used to be $125 drivers back in the day. shipping of the speaker alone is over 100 pounds.
make a tennis-ball woofer with one of THOSE puppies, and write if your confuser survived turning it up. long been a dream of mine to whip one up, but never had the money or room....
Re:Completely off-topic (Score:5, Funny)
I think Jar Jar Weasley dies when the Dark Lord Vadermort blows up Hogobah... oh never mind.
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Re:Completely off-topic (Score:5, Funny)
You mean Boromir, right? The guy killed by the Cylons because he entered a stargate during a Wraith attack.
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Re:That's no moon... (Score:5, Funny)
That's no moon
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Re:Nice Idea... (Score:4, Informative)
--Mike--
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Re:Nice Idea... (Score:5, Interesting)
The Death Star subwoofer is, well, a subwoofer. Most subwoofer crossovers filter frequencies above 80 to 100 Hz, per Dolby & THX recommendations, so the maximum frequency that will (hopefully) be generated by this sub is 100 Hz. The wavelength of 100 Hz is roughly 10 ft. The half wavelength at 100 Hz is 5 ft. The diameter of the Death Star subwoofer is 3 ft.
Basically, the smallest half-wavelength that will be generated by the subwoofer is greater than the diameter of the cabinet, so standing waves just aren't an issue here. It is something that needs to be considered for higher-frequency speakers, but a lot of the "rules-of-thumb" that are applicable to mid/high-frequency speakers don't apply to subwoofers because the wavelengths of bass frequencies are so large. (some gotcha's, like baffle-step, may apply, depending on the geometry of the cabinet)
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Just let me know (Score:5, Funny)
Just let us know when you build your Imperial Car Destroyer. Put the plans up here (slashdotting be damned). I bet it would be a real babe magnet.
"Hey, baby! Anyone ever tell you look just like Natalie Portman? Come over here and check out my ride. It's got 385 Tauntauns under the hood. Maybe we can go over to my apartment. I've got hot grits and Death Star loudspeakers. Yeah, baby."
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Re:Yes that's very cool but.... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Wow... (Score:4, Interesting)
Here's some data in the format: "time -- time since article was posted -- counter on eBay":
11:35 -- 0 mins --
11:36 -- 1 mins -- 4000
11:48 -- 13 mins -- 11000
12:22 -- 47 mins -- 37000
13:42 -- 127 mins -- 84775
13:49 -- 134 mins -- 87721
13:51 -- 136 mins -- 88734
13:57 -- 142 mins -- 91214
14:03 -- 148 mins -- 94027
From this, we can see a couple of things. First off, ebay can be counted as one of the (few) servers that survives slashdotting (slashdot also seems able to survive). Secondly, if you fit the above data, the trend is quite linear (R-squared of 0.997). The slope of the fit indicates that after a story goes live, about 600 people per minute check the link supplied in the summary. Probably lots more people read the slashdot article without actually reading the linked article.
This is one of the rare times that slashdot links to a site that can handle the load, and supplies a counter. The counter in this case isn't unique to slashdot visits, but it looks like most of the hits on the counter have come from slashdot (it was at 4,000 before slashdot posted, and now is at >90,000. This makes for some fairly interesting statistics. I'm interested to see how long it takes before the curve starts levelling off. How many people read slashdot stories right away, versus how many read it the day after? Obviously this is not perfectly scientific, but it's kinda interesting all the same.
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