gdwrench
Dirtbag
Crazy knucklehead !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJCLRsWsyI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJCLRsWsyI&feature=related
Dont do this at home !!
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dshoaf
That high voltage buzz
These guys have a way of taking themselves out of the gene pool. Thanks goodness we don't have to help them!
BTW, I do remember a Cerwin-Vega speaker driver that was demoed at a trade show by plugging it directly into the wall. It was able to handle the ~2000 watts but the magnet assembly got really hot. You couldn't get close the thing, though, while it was running.
Cheers,
David
BTW, I do remember a Cerwin-Vega speaker driver that was demoed at a trade show by plugging it directly into the wall. It was able to handle the ~2000 watts but the magnet assembly got really hot. You couldn't get close the thing, though, while it was running.
Cheers,
David
I wouldn't know which direction to run.
Actually, the story that was told to me by a senior design engineer from Alpine (car audio company)... was that in or around 1980, Cerwin-Vega took an 18" woofer, attached a fiberglass boat seat to the back of the magnet (so that you could sit on it, while the woofer was facing face-down on the floor), and wired an extension cord from the woofer input terminals to a variac. They then gave "rides" on the woofer... someone (usually a small child) would sit in the seat, and they'd ramp up the voltage until the 60Hz cone movement would produce enough sound pressure to "float" the speaker... not unlike an air-hockey table. Then, they'd push around the kid... the speaker/seat/rider would just "whoosh" across the concrete trade show floor...
Hey, it had all the elements for a gearhead good time... speed, noise AND power!
Regards,
Gordon.
ouimetnick
Hafler Fan!
Just posting a temp placeholder. I'm at school now, and will need to wait until I'm home to watch.
mad shadows
Super Member
what a moron...I mean that in the nicest way possible
Epic in all the right ways!
Actually, the story that was told to me by a senior design engineer from Alpine (car audio company)... was that in or around 1980, Cerwin-Vega took an 18" woofer, attached a fiberglass boat seat to the back of the magnet (so that you could sit on it, while the woofer was facing face-down on the floor), and wired an extension cord from the woofer input terminals to a variac. They then gave "rides" on the woofer... someone (usually a small child) would sit in the seat, and they'd ramp up the voltage until the 60Hz cone movement would produce enough sound pressure to "float" the speaker... not unlike an air-hockey table. Then, they'd push around the kid... the speaker/seat/rider would just "whoosh" across the concrete trade show floor...
Hey, it had all the elements for a gearhead good time... speed, noise AND power!
Regards,
Gordon.
Was he by chance a surfer dude from Alpine America in California?
Smash
Likes it loud
hahahahahaha I do this all the time with speakers I want to dispose of... www.youtube.com/poopoogarret theres tons of wall socket and overpowering videos, I think its pretty fun to do, especially when it comes to them stupid plastic car "subz"
PioneerGuy75
Certified Lurker
:sigh:
rifftrax
mix-meister
Meh, this is much much more impressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7gsPFFnqc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7gsPFFnqc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
avguytx
Lunatic Member
There were a few other car audio companies I sold way back when that would demo the ruggedness of their subs with the wall trick. Rockford had the power series woofers that could do it for a reasonable time and there were others that I forget. It was especially loud when you had the woofer in a ported box tuned to the 60Hz point. Wow... In almost 20 years of Car and Home A/V retail, I admit we "popped" a few speakers like that to send them back for replacement/credit.
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