Nowadays there are more and more cost friendly motion seat and motion actuators flooding into the market beside dbox. However, currently solely for games except dbox which can add a HEMC box and pay yearly subscription fee for new movies.
If someone release a black box or software to sync the actuator to movies, likely a game changer to ht market. Price for tactile transducer n etc will drop by then.
The downside i see from these motion actuators is the noise level. Also will emit emi noise n etc and affect the ht sound, i believe. Dbox considered quiet and acceptable. They also have their haptic technology which create sort of bass feel.
I would think the trick is how well it blend in to those less than 20hz to single digit hz kind of bass. No need for the actuators to shake a lot like there’s no tomorrow, but just good enough to get that feel from where your
The sub cannot produce… that being said also the challenging part.
I used AVS settings and found it very natural, low pass at 10Hz using 2x4HD for crownson sounds crazy (my original low pass set at 40Hz) but it works amazingly well, for both watching movie and concert.
I remember bro Bryan low pass at 15Hz with additional LS filter applied, not bad if you like more tactile feel but personally I felt it a bit too strong to my taste, so I stick to AVS recommended settings,
Bro Wind,yes, quite challenging . If you have stationary test tones like sine and warble tones , you can actually check which deep frequency and below you cannot feel at your seat so you roughly know where to cross over . Using stationary test tones also can help to determine where is the resonance/peak of a particular frequency lies, also a good way to check if you can have front charging bass when watching movies.
I was using the Dayton shakers which looks similar to the aura on the outside. Perhaps due to my mounting is more flexible, the frequency peak occurs at ~20hz.
There was once i proposed to my wife changing to car seats for ht but kana rejected. Coz i see the benefit of car seat is we can take out head rest. Listening to 2 channels more live feel
Coz i have tried sport car recliner seat with ckark synthesis transducer, the energy able to transfer to seat and front body. So i suspect crowson also can.