WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.840 Everybody knows that a bigger subwoofer means more bass. 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:06.900 But what about longer subwoofer? 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:11.780 I'm gonna catch a cable. I'm gonna ruin every, we're good. Longer subwoofer. 00:00:11.780 --> 00:00:14.780 This is the Bose Acoustic Wave Cannon System 00:00:14.780 --> 00:00:18.380 and it's f***ing dumb. It's 12 feet long and it can blast listeners 00:00:18.380 --> 00:00:23.980 with super low wubs, it up to an ear-damagingly high 109 decibels. 00:00:23.980 --> 00:00:28.500 And all we had to do was extract it from the home of some maniac on Facebook Marketplace. 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:32.620 But just how bassy can this thing get? I mean, it's called a sound cannon. 00:00:32.620 --> 00:00:35.780 But as somebody who craves the thunder of the wubs, 00:00:35.780 --> 00:00:40.600 I have very high expectations. The only problem is, it's not built yet. 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:45.380 So I've enlisted help of good friend of the channel, DMS, so that we can get this thing online, 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:48.900 figure out why it even exists. And hopefully we can make it sound 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:52.740 like one of those old Maxwell tape ads. Let's do it, let's do it. 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:56.820 Welcome to the latest installment of, we bought this thing, we do not know what we're doing, 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:58.380 but we're gonna use it anyways. 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:05.740 Hey Adam, there's something in here. Huh? Oh hey, it's our segway to our sponsor. 00:01:05.740 --> 00:01:10.340 So the script says unbox it, but there's not really a whole lot of unboxing. 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:15.020 Yeah, the box probably isn't around anymore because the instruction manual says copyright 1988. 00:01:15.020 --> 00:01:18.620 But what exactly did we get? I see that we have a big tube 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:22.420 and I see the driver for the subwoofer, but we also have a bunch of other stuff. 00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:25.580 Yeah, so like many other Bose products, 00:01:25.580 --> 00:01:28.740 this requires a sort of proprietary power system 00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:32.220 because this uses DSP, digital signal processing 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:36.940 to make it sound a certain way. It's just a fancy way of saying they EQ'd it to make it sound the way they want. 00:01:36.940 --> 00:01:40.060 So you couldn't just drop this thing into any system, 00:01:40.060 --> 00:01:43.580 you need this. You technically could, however, 00:01:43.580 --> 00:01:48.140 you would need to know what they did EQ-wise if you want it to sound the way it should. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:54.220 But like, I don't think it's really a normal speaker because I have never seen a speaker that is 12 feet long. 00:01:54.220 --> 00:01:57.300 It is a normal speaker. You could actually replace this. 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:01.460 It's just got a simple speaker tap on the side and this is just PVC pipe. 00:02:01.460 --> 00:02:07.420 Wait, you're saying we spent $1,000 plus however long it took to get this here for PVC pipe? 00:02:07.420 --> 00:02:10.660 Yes, but it's a lot less than people would have spent on it in the 80s. 00:02:10.660 --> 00:02:16.020 Was PVC expensive in the 80s? No, actually the reason you would build a speaker like this, 00:02:16.020 --> 00:02:19.900 specifically a subwoofer is because this is the cheapest way you could possibly build it. 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:24.180 Wow, that's so Bose of them. But that doesn't mean it isn't cool. 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:26.580 I mean, who hasn't wanted to own a cannon? 00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:33.540 It's like a freaking bass bazooka. Yeah, my favorite thing about it is how compact it is. 00:02:33.540 --> 00:02:36.780 Something you'll notice about this is it's open on both ends. 00:02:36.780 --> 00:02:39.780 So there's not really an enclosure, right? Oh yeah. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:43.140 That's because this is what's called a parallel port. 00:02:43.140 --> 00:02:48.380 Now, the way this works is essentially ports, they help make one bass frequency louder than the rest 00:02:48.380 --> 00:02:51.660 and we have one big one and one short one so we can kind of combine those 00:02:51.660 --> 00:02:56.660 and fill out a bigger range of bass. So it's not just a one note, one trick pony. 00:02:56.660 --> 00:03:02.460 Another benefit, or maybe it's a downside, a characteristic of having your bass in a long tube 00:03:02.460 --> 00:03:07.100 is that it makes it very directional, which means that the bass only goes 00:03:07.100 --> 00:03:10.300 where you want it to go, ideally. 00:03:10.300 --> 00:03:15.180 This is why the guy who owned this previously had this actually mounted in his dining room cabinets, 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:18.780 but it blasted all of that sound into his home theater 00:03:18.820 --> 00:03:22.580 so it maybe didn't disturb the dinner guests too much 00:03:22.580 --> 00:03:26.900 while he was sitting by himself watching The Dark Knight for the 1700th time. 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:31.060 Usually bass is omnidirectional, means it emits in every direction, 00:03:31.060 --> 00:03:34.580 pierces through walls, that's why you can hear your neighbors playing loud music. 00:03:34.580 --> 00:03:38.540 But the way this thing is canceling sound out is the bass frequencies are so long 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:41.660 you measure them in feet out like this. 00:03:41.660 --> 00:03:44.780 So you're saying this cancels out the frequencies? 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:50.300 Yes, the distance from that port to the other one is so big that those frequencies overlap in the air 00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:53.780 and cancel each other out. So if you're sitting right in front of it, good bass. 00:03:53.780 --> 00:03:57.500 But if you're the guy next door, not so good bass. 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:00.500 Whoa, whoa, whoa, before we do this, I actually wanna hear what this is gonna sound 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:04.180 like without the tube, because that way I'm gonna know what that tube do. 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:07.620 That means we need to figure out what that rat's nest is. Whoa. 00:04:07.620 --> 00:04:12.300 Oh, yeah, that is an extra driver. Useful if you blow one up. 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:16.180 Do you think we're gonna do that? I hope not, but it's not outside the scope of possibilities 00:04:16.180 --> 00:04:20.820 and I don't wanna make any promises. We're gonna blow it up. So this thing's weird. 00:04:20.820 --> 00:04:24.100 Like a lot of things were in the 1980s audio wise, 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:28.580 it takes balanced inputs on these XLRs. 00:04:28.580 --> 00:04:32.100 It's just weird seeing it wired for it on binding posts 00:04:32.100 --> 00:04:36.780 that then go out to XLRs. Yeah, why not just XLR the whole way? 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:41.820 Why not indeed? I'm gonna take this thing off of here 00:04:41.820 --> 00:04:43.820 just because since we're not using it, 00:04:44.820 --> 00:04:48.620 I don't wanna leave some bare wires sitting around that might just short out on us. 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:54.180 It's just weird that there's binding posts for everything. I'm not used to seeing binding posts leading out to RCA's. 00:04:54.180 --> 00:04:58.820 And why do they have balanced inputs and unbalanced outputs? 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:02.980 What were they thinking here? What was the plan? 00:05:02.980 --> 00:05:06.180 It's almost like you could like give a press conference 00:05:06.180 --> 00:05:09.900 from here. I'm John Bose, inventor of the Bose headphones 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:13.580 and Soundwave Canon. You wanna overprice the box? 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:17.020 We got you covered. Sweet. So now we should be able to play something on this. 00:05:17.020 --> 00:05:21.500 Yes. I'm gonna set this beautiful thing right here on top. 00:05:21.500 --> 00:05:25.020 Oh yeah, look at that. Why are you not making sound? 00:05:25.020 --> 00:05:27.020 Why have you forsaken me base tube? 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:34.180 Hey. It's doing a little bit. Update. 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:37.980 Turns out that this Bose controller doesn't really work. 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:41.460 So we plugged it into this SVS prime wireless pro sound base 00:05:41.460 --> 00:05:45.580 and plugged that directly into the subwoofer. And would you know it? 00:05:45.580 --> 00:05:48.020 It works. I'm tired, boss. 00:05:52.540 --> 00:05:54.980 That's noise coming from me adjusting the knob here. 00:05:58.940 --> 00:06:01.220 Well, they just got some peaks. Yeah. 00:06:04.060 --> 00:06:07.420 There's the, that's the frequency of the tube that's sitting right there. 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:12.100 Is it making that thing? It's resonating off this. 00:06:12.100 --> 00:06:16.260 So I'll just sit on the couch and see if this makes sense. Do we want to rotate it so that it fits? 00:06:16.260 --> 00:06:20.100 Fits where? Directly. So it faces the couch? Oh, you should. 00:06:20.100 --> 00:06:23.100 This is actually the correct orientation. What? Yeah. 00:06:23.100 --> 00:06:26.100 What? You don't want to be in front of it. 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:29.100 You don't want to. You technically want to be on this side. Why? 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:34.420 If you are on this side, you're going to be farther from one side to the other. 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:37.420 You're going to get more phase cancellation. Oh. 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:41.420 So technically, this is the correct side according to the maths. 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:46.420 Because what you want to do is launch the sound that way it disperses within the room. 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:50.420 It's coming out both sides. Oh, oh, oh. 00:06:50.420 --> 00:06:53.420 I get it now. It's the parallel port. 00:06:53.420 --> 00:06:58.420 I get what you're saying. Yes. Which means there should be spots when we're walking around on the sides when it should 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:00.420 just cancel out and sound weird. 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:04.420 It's not very bassy. It's not that bassy. What the hell is this? 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:07.420 Let's find the right side of it. 00:07:07.420 --> 00:07:11.420 But you just walk around and it disappears. Yeah, it sounds like a Google Home. 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:17.420 You see why these didn't really catch on? But I mean, if you built them into a bespoke environment, what if you could work? 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:21.420 Yes. If you had a space designed specifically where you're trying to only get bass in one spot, 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:28.420 that would work great for it. Which seems like a lot when you have other solutions, like just making a lot of space 00:07:28.420 --> 00:07:32.420 of other solutions, like just making a bigger subwoofer. 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:36.420 But a true sign of a good subwoofer is how it integrates into an audio system. 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:41.420 So DMS hooked us up with these amazing SVS Ultra Evolution. 00:07:41.420 --> 00:07:46.420 It sounds like a Goku type thing. It's basically the end game for a lot of speakers. 00:07:46.420 --> 00:07:51.420 These things are crazy. How we got like, what are these 8-inch drivers? 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:54.420 Subwoofer, subwoofer, subwoofer, subwoofer. 00:07:54.420 --> 00:07:57.420 I think this will probably produce more bass than the tube does. 00:07:57.420 --> 00:08:01.420 Bro, don't tell me that. Don't tell me that. We spent so much time getting the tube. 00:08:03.420 --> 00:08:06.420 Okay, let's try it. We got the tower setup. 00:08:06.420 --> 00:08:10.420 We got the Bose acoustic wave cannon setup. Let's see how good it sounds. 00:08:14.420 --> 00:08:15.420 Okay, so... 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:24.420 Yeah. What happens if we take out the bass cannon? 00:08:25.420 --> 00:08:27.420 My guess, not much. 00:08:29.420 --> 00:08:34.420 It's honestly just cleaner. Yeah. It's just cleaner. It's a little bit less boominess. 00:08:34.420 --> 00:08:37.420 Maybe... No, it's just better. Yeah, it's just better. 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:40.420 It just sounds better. I feel like a f***ing idiot. 00:08:42.420 --> 00:08:47.420 Our suffering is other people's. I was so excited about this bass cannon. 00:08:47.420 --> 00:08:51.420 And it's garbage. Honestly, the tube is still a little bit better than I thought it would be. 00:08:51.420 --> 00:08:53.420 Really? Yeah. 00:08:54.420 --> 00:08:57.420 Speakers weren't that good in the 80s. I feel like everyone's talking about like, 00:08:57.420 --> 00:09:00.420 oh, my dad's like 70s hi-fi speakers are so good. Yeah. 00:09:00.420 --> 00:09:08.420 But 70s hi-fi, in most cases, the vast majority of cases is not nearly as good as like $100 modern speakers on Amazon. 00:09:08.420 --> 00:09:12.420 But generally speaking, things were not very progressed acoustically in the 80s. 00:09:12.420 --> 00:09:16.420 Dad, don't watch this. They're not that good. 00:09:16.420 --> 00:09:21.420 You haven't written it yet, but I heard your comments. You're saying, why would they test that subwoofer in a big warehouse? 00:09:21.420 --> 00:09:25.420 It's not even like a good use case for it. So we decided to bring it to the lounge, 00:09:25.420 --> 00:09:30.420 where it's a more normal sized space 00:09:30.420 --> 00:09:33.420 and probably something that's kind of relevant to this actual use case. 00:09:33.420 --> 00:09:38.420 Probably a pretty big room for a house, but a reasonable size for a community space. 00:09:38.420 --> 00:09:41.420 So we think that this is a more fair representation. 00:09:41.420 --> 00:09:44.420 This is a 88 inch TV. It's a lot of TV. 00:09:44.420 --> 00:09:49.420 And look at how big the tube is. It looks like almost two of that TV. 00:09:49.420 --> 00:09:53.420 It's so stupid. Okay, but let's hear how it sounds. Let's play. 00:09:53.420 --> 00:09:56.420 All right, we're not here for the TV. I have no idea how loud this is. 00:10:01.420 --> 00:10:03.420 Can I give it more juice? 00:10:06.420 --> 00:10:10.420 It sounds a lot better in here. Yeah, significantly so. 00:10:10.420 --> 00:10:15.420 I don't think that it can pressurize that warehouse, but in a room of this size, I mean, it works. 00:10:15.420 --> 00:10:20.420 But it doesn't really have like a lot of like rumble. Like it felt like I could hear bass, 00:10:20.420 --> 00:10:24.420 but I wasn't feeling it. It sounds more like a woofer than a subwoofer. 00:10:24.420 --> 00:10:29.420 I would say even in a room this size, it's a bit cumbersome still. 00:10:29.420 --> 00:10:32.420 Do you want to compare it to like a normal sub? 00:10:32.420 --> 00:10:35.420 We're now listening on the 10 inch Mackie sub. 00:10:39.420 --> 00:10:43.420 So funny enough, the wave cannon actually did sound a little bit deeper. 00:10:43.420 --> 00:10:48.420 Yeah, I was thinking that. I think the Mackie sounded tighter. 00:10:48.420 --> 00:10:54.420 I do think as a whole, the Mackie sounds better to me. Yeah, but I felt like I got more of the bass experience from the cannon here. 00:10:54.420 --> 00:10:59.420 Yeah, surprising. I mean, again, this is a 12 inch woofer. 00:10:59.420 --> 00:11:07.420 That's a 10 inch woofer. A 10 inch woofer in like a one foot box versus a 12 inch woofer in a 14 foot tube. 00:11:07.420 --> 00:11:14.420 So like they both have their strengths. Would I say that it would make sense to implement this 12 inch 15 or 12 foot long 00:11:14.420 --> 00:11:17.420 12 inch subwoofer versus that tiny compact 10 inch? 00:11:17.420 --> 00:11:20.420 Absolutely not. There's no deployment where I would be like, 00:11:20.420 --> 00:11:23.420 like if you really needed to just get another one of those. Yeah. 00:11:23.420 --> 00:11:27.420 And the situations where these were manufactured for where you would like stack them, 00:11:27.420 --> 00:11:30.420 that might actually do some cool stuff. Yeah. 00:11:30.420 --> 00:11:35.420 But for the amount of space it takes up and how much it would have cost at the time. 00:11:35.420 --> 00:11:41.420 Let's go back to Labs and compare this against another subwoofer. 00:11:41.420 --> 00:11:46.420 This is the SVS PB17 Ultra Evolution. 00:11:46.420 --> 00:11:49.420 Holy s***. It's insane. 00:11:49.420 --> 00:11:52.420 It is. It's like even tapping on it. Listen. 00:11:54.420 --> 00:11:57.420 It's like the size of a mini fridge. Yes. 00:11:57.420 --> 00:12:00.420 These are about 165 pounds a piece and 6,000 watts. 00:12:00.420 --> 00:12:06.420 And we have two of them. So these have a 17 inch woofer whereas this thing only had a 12 inch woofer. 00:12:06.420 --> 00:12:10.420 Yes. And the magnets on these things go back to like here. 00:12:10.420 --> 00:12:15.420 That's... It doesn't. It's hard to do justice to the scale of this thing. 00:12:15.420 --> 00:12:20.420 Here's a 10 inch subwoofer for scale. And this is what we would call like a pretty good subwoofer. 00:12:20.420 --> 00:12:23.420 Yeah, that's pretty beefy. You want enough bass to fight God. 00:12:23.420 --> 00:12:25.420 I want to hear this. We got to hear it. 00:12:32.420 --> 00:12:35.420 It sounds terrible. 00:12:35.420 --> 00:12:37.420 It's so much bass. 00:12:38.420 --> 00:12:40.420 It's at half. Yeah. 00:12:42.420 --> 00:12:48.420 It's at half. For reference, the speakers are all the way over there pointing in a different direction. 00:12:48.420 --> 00:12:54.420 And this is causing the robotic ARM to sense force. 00:12:56.420 --> 00:12:58.420 Holy crap. 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:02.420 Oh my God. 00:13:10.420 --> 00:13:11.420 Yeah. 00:13:14.420 --> 00:13:22.420 Holy s***. That was like the whole building like the AC and the LED wall. 00:13:23.420 --> 00:13:26.420 Yes. Come into those two things. 00:13:26.420 --> 00:13:30.420 I've seen people put four of these in their houses before. 00:13:30.420 --> 00:13:33.420 This is crazy. It's so much. 00:13:33.420 --> 00:13:35.420 It feels like a theater. Yeah. 00:13:38.420 --> 00:13:41.420 I like how this video was supposed to be about this Bose acoustic wave cannon, 00:13:41.420 --> 00:13:44.420 but it ended up just being like, wow, look at these SVS subs. Yeah. 00:13:44.420 --> 00:13:48.420 And realistically, again, I don't think anybody needs this specifically. 00:13:48.420 --> 00:13:53.420 I feel like someone could get by just fine with like a $400 SVS sub and that would be insane. 00:13:53.420 --> 00:13:59.420 Yeah. They probably need these SVS subs about as badly as they need the acoustic wave cannon system. 00:13:59.420 --> 00:14:02.420 Yes. So in that sense, this is almost the perfect comparison. 00:14:02.420 --> 00:14:09.420 It really is. They're both needless and you can probably satisfy anything that you need with a very, 00:14:09.420 --> 00:14:13.420 very affordable and effective option. 00:14:13.420 --> 00:14:17.420 Actually, we'll have some good subwoofer recommendations from DMS himself down linked below. 00:14:17.420 --> 00:14:20.420 But if you wanted to go absolutely insane with it. 00:14:20.420 --> 00:14:23.420 No better way. This is the way. Yeah. 00:14:23.420 --> 00:14:26.420 Skip the tube, get the 17 inch subs. Yep. 00:14:26.420 --> 00:14:31.420 Slap these in a home theater, run them at a very low volume to protect what little hearing 00:14:31.420 --> 00:14:37.420 you're going to have left after like one movie. I wonder how much productivity we've destroyed today in Labs since they're like, 00:14:37.420 --> 00:14:40.420 Listen. Right there. I warned them. 00:14:40.420 --> 00:14:43.420 Just to give the candidate a fair of a chance as I possibly could, I set up a low pass filter 00:14:43.420 --> 00:14:49.420 and then did some DSP tuning by ear to try and match what they're doing with this guy. 00:14:49.420 --> 00:14:53.420 It's not going to be perfect, but honestly, it's a big improvement of where we were at. 00:14:53.420 --> 00:14:58.420 I don't know exactly what sort of DSP curve they're applying here, but if I had to guess, 00:14:58.420 --> 00:15:02.420 it's probably close to what I just did digitally. Yeah, I can like feel the pressure in my ears. 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:08.420 I don't like feel it though. That's a base tube. 00:15:08.420 --> 00:15:11.420 That's base tube. 00:15:11.420 --> 00:15:15.420 That's all I got. Thanks for watching this video. Thanks to DMS for coming out and helping us out. 00:15:15.420 --> 00:15:22.420 And thanks to SVS for sending over those speakers. And if you liked this video, why don't you check out the fire truck that we put some crazy subs in there, 00:15:22.420 --> 00:15:26.420 give it a whole sound system upgrade. Now that truck is fire. 00:15:26.420 --> 00:15:30.420 That joke was probably made in the video. I probably am not the first one to make that. 00:15:30.420 --> 00:15:33.420 That's pretty good though. I know it is good. Joke's so nice we made it twice.