Loudspeaker Free Cinema

[Harold Hallikainen]

Just heard about this this morning. No idea as to cost and effectiveness. It would solve the LED screen sound issue.

https://www.flexound.com/flexound-pulse

[Marco Giustini]

Headphones would too!

[Steve Kraus]

This is all you need.

[Leo Enticknap]

Plus someone who knows how to play it. Still, those 32' ranks of open diapasons could kick the ass of any subwoofer that JBL or QSC makes.

[Frank Cox]

No snuggling up with the girlfriend when you're sitting in those seats...

[Randy Stankey]

Speakers? We don't need no stinkin' speakers!

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Yamato Drummers of Japan: http://yamatodrummers.com/

[Martin McCaffery]

I look at that system and think "Thank God, porn theatres don't exist anymore."

And then I think "How will porn adapt to this technology?"

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I look at that system and think "Thank God, porn theatres don't exist anymore."

And then I think "How will porn adapt to this technology?"

Yea, those darn 3-D attachments that make the image seem to real!

[Brad Miller]

Wow, what an absolutely stupid idea.

[Randy Stankey]

Does anybody remember the "Bone Fone" radio that you were supposed to wear around your neck?
Supposedly, the sound resonated through your shoulder bones to give you great sound.

I think that this is basically a new incarnation of the Bone Fone, except in chair form.

Let me give you a spoiler. The Bone Fone didn't work. It was just a cheapo transistor radio in a cloth neck collar.
You could hear the sound but all that stuff about sound resonating through your body was just, plain BS.

This new, chair-speaker-thingy is just another version of that... It doesn't work.

[Harold Hallikainen]

I look at that system and think "Thank God, porn theatres don't exist anymore."

And then I think "How will porn adapt to this technology?"

Remember the movie Brainstorm? All sensory input to the brain could be recorded and then played back. One guy did a porn loop and died.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

This is all you need.

Too finnicky and can not pick up the 7 channel wireless signal. I hate the new wave of overly large recliners.... Bring back temper-pedic seating! My desk chair is Temper-Pedic and I can spend hours in it if need be.

Back in the early 2000's when I was at GTS, I used to service the Strand light dimming systems of which one dimmer rack (Balcony lighting rack) was in the left bell tower blower room. Anyway, from an access door in the balcony I had to carefully walk up the wood air duct that fed half of the down stairs pipes. Then I got to the pipe room where the Strand 80 channel dimmer was at along with one of the four blowers and more larger pipes. I was never in the top room of the other bell tower. But looking this one up it has 79 ranks and close to 5000 pipes. The organ was built in Ireland and installed when the Cathedral was completely restored in 1993.

[Steve Kraus]

Plus someone who knows how to play it. Still, those 32' ranks of open diapasons could kick the ass of any subwoofer that JBL or QSC makes.

Coincidentally instead of the usual free recital, this week they had us sit close to the console while the history of the organ and its various features and rebuilding were discussed and demonstrated. At one point, he played what I assume was the bottom note on the biggest rank and said that was the opening note to Thus Spake Zarathustra from 2001.

(Ref: Skinner Organ, Rockefeller Chapel, Univ. of Chicago, 8,565 pipes in 132 ranks. Tom Wiesflog, chief organist)

[John Eickhof]

kinda reminds me of the accoustic soundwall panels a couple guys were developing at the old aerojet site in sacramento...their panels were speakerless and only 1 1/2" thick, they actually ( i think they were ribbons) but they were secretive on what made them work. they did sound ok but had no dynamic range...they couldnt achieve over 60 db..they were trying to market through ORC....never went anywhere!

[Steve Kraus]

"Thank God, porn theatres don't exist anymore."

They don’t?