greg ball: subsonic teenager subwoofer chair
‘subsonic chair’ all images courtesy of greg ball
back in 2005, canadian designer john greg ball created the ‘subsonic’ chair‘ which became a shortlisted entry in the designboom competition ‘teenage furniture’.
since then, ball has developed the chair further at the insistence of his students at SAIT polytechnic in calgary, alberta. tapping into the behaviours of teenagers, ball originally designed the chair based on the tendencies of youth to play video games and music very loudly. still under the prototype phase, the updated design features two 16-inch subwoofers in the chair’s structure which emit a strong, thundering bass tone. having the capacity to connect to an iPod, MP3 player or gaming system, ‘subsonic’ gives users a full range of sound.
detail of the subwoofer
front view
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this has to be THE worst project to ever land on designboom…
Hi Jake: I disagree. I thinks its one of THE best!
I actually really want one, now.
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“A 16 in. subwoofer” Blah, blah, blah!! For real!!! The concept is cool but this guy is just gay and I would not say that otherwise but he makes it sound so difficult and like it’s art instead of a cool piece of tech..
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I like it! the concept is simple but the risult is great
Shame you don’t get to hear what it sounds like 🙁
It doesn’t look very comfortable. Make me an 800 watt active sub-frequency box spring, then talk to me.
unfortunately the bass would only be heard after it reflects off the walls sounding muddled to the person in the chair. The long frequencies of bass are inaudible that close to the source, the sitter would certainly feel the bass though.
JL Audio is killer. I’ve got a 15″ JL audio W0 sub for my car with a 1550W amp to power it. and needless to say it pounds incredibly hard. Having two 16″ JL subs would just knock pictures off the walls hahaha. I would love to have one! anyone know a price or anything?
Difficulties in design? Those sound like the easiest possible obstacles to overcome. I mean, really, how hard is it to draw something in CAD and have a CNC cutter cut it correctly? That’s pretty much what the software and hardware were designed for.