Someday, it will be back...

{mosgoogle}It's all about achieving the maximum performance in what ever realm you're dealing with, be it sound quality, SPL, road racing, oval track racing, drag racing, motocross, basket weaving, what ever...

The giant subwoofer was created because we thought it would be the most effective way to reach sound pressure levels never before achieved, and we thought it would be a really cool project to design, engineer, and build. The process was like how any vehicle in competitive motor sports are designed and created. You have the rules by which you must play, and you creatively build the fastest car possible within that framework.

Actually, none of the people involved in the design or fabrication of the giant woofer had ever been involved in serious SPL competition. However, each person involved saw the opportunity to push the technology and performance envelopes, and to build something that had never been built before.

Unfortunately, many times if you get too creative, even though you stay within the current rules, they change the rules on you so that your idea becomes illegal. Just ask Hendrick Motorsports about the shocks on Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch's cars last year...

Anyhow, the giant woofer was never intended to be anything near a sound quality woofer, nor to be installed in a vehicle that can drive on the street. So don't sweat the idea that it might be responsible for waking you up at night when the neighborhood hoodlums drive by. (More likely, it would implode your windows anyway...)

It was a lot of fun to be involved in building it. It is very effective at getting loud, and at frequencies lower than any other speaker out there. And, if the rules hadn't been changed immediately after the 1997 finals, and an appropriate vehicle could have been built to contain it, the SPL World record would have been set at a mark that still, today, has not been achieved by conventional subwoofer systems.

Someday, it will be back...

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Mark Eldridge
Mobile Soundstage Engineering
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