Silent Subwoofers ie: Buttkicker -your thoughts?

I sat in one at CES, where I got to feel the chair shake when depth charges went off in "U-571." This really does not do much for the theater experience (worth a few chuckles more than anything else).

It kind of reminded me of "The Tingler." When that Vincent Price horror flic came out in the '50's, some theaters installed special devices in the chairs. Actually, what they did was wire up rivets in the hard bottoms of the chairs, so people wearing shorts (it was a summer release) would get a pretty nasty jolt of electricity at the appropriate moment in the movie. I wonder why this feature never caught on.

If you have throom and ability, IB subwoofers give you all the bass you can want, and will shake the floor if installed in the floor, like I have.
google "infinitely baffled" and read away.

It felt to me like the imax theatre at jordan's in massachusetts was using somethign like this. the seats would shake a lot, often when there was no associated bass sound, and the time was slightly off. i was with a bunch of people, none of whom are audiophiles. none of them noticed, but i didn't like it. -dave