TST209 Tactile Transducer Bass Shaker

Out of everyone I know I have the best home theater out there. After hooking up the TST 209 transducers my friends could only say. Wow I did not know your system could get any better.One thing I would like to point out. Transducers do not replace subs but they add to it. For example when showing my home theater off I would crank the volume up so that when an explosion would happen people would feel the base. Feeling the concussion of a blast is part of what makes it feel like you’re there. With transducers you can get the exact same effect but at a high volume or at a low volume.How to hook them up? I bought the Dayton SPA250. Im happy I did. After doing a lot of research I found that you don’t wire these like normal speakers but you wire them in series. If you are wiring more then one transducer you want to go from the positive of the amp to the positive the of transducer. Then from the negative of the transducer will go to the positive of the next transducer. When you get to your last transducer you will lead the negative wire back to the negative of the amp. This will complete the series.If you have a home theater and you’re wondering if it makes a difference just know that it does. If you wondering if you should get these or butt shakers I would say get the TST 209 or better .

I originally had 2 Aura Bass Shakers powered by a vintage Pioneer SX-1080 amp rated at 120 watts RMS per channel into 8 ohms and 170 watts RMS into 4 ohms. These were driven from a Y-out of the 5.1 subwoofer output to the SX-1080 amp input. This set up provided plenty of bass affect into a couple of Lazy Boy recliners for a couple of years with the 5.1 home theatre system before finding the Clark Synthesis TST209s.Pound for pound and dollar for dollar the TST209 does much more with the same power/mounting than the Aura Bass Shakers. I highly recommend them, especially if your significant other complains about loud bass but you like to "feel" the sound. All this said, one of the TST209s has failed 11 months into it's service. I am not sure of the warranty but am starting down the replacement path and will follow up this review with an update.Update on replacement: I called the seller of the TST209 and they indicated that they would replace the defective item since there was a 2 year warranty. I live close to the vendor's store (fortunately) and took the TST209 directly to their store. They took care of everything (even exchange) in about 30 minutes. I would not hesitate to purchase these from the seller again.

I was debating between this model and the next model up, and I wish I would have gotten the next model up. These units seem to not have any voice coil short protection, and when they get too much power the voice coils touch (I'm assuming) and it shorts out the speaker. I have a short protection on my amp and it luckily seems to cut power before anything bad happens, but it's really annoying and makes me wish I would have gotten the more powerful transducers. It just wasn't in the budget.Usage: I'm running these on the four corners of a sim racing rig to simulate chassis rumble.

cabling was loose.we had to rewire the internal cables.

I bought one of these for use with SimVibe on my racing sims. It was pretty good, though very buzzy and noisy. I would NOT recommend it for this application, however. Read on.On the second day I owned it with under half volume set on my 100w, 4ohm Dayton amp, Simvibe glitched and gave out an errant loud sound while on the loading screen for Assetto Corsa. This instantly broke the Clark.So what did I do? I bought another one, the Silver model this time, and kept the volume even lower... and the SAME THING HAPPENED! This and other reviews here leads me to think that these things are very fragile and poorly designed. What a waste of money.I actually cut mine open (they were broken, so why not?) and found the coil had ripped in two in the same way on both of them. These things do not have any kind of overload protection despite Clark's claims. They just over-expand and tear themselves apart. Again, my amp was at just below half volume so I wasn't stressing its 100w limit. I do place partial blame on SimVibe, but this thing should be able to handle its rated power without self-destructing.Get a Buttkicker Mini LFE instead, they are protected inside with foam so that they can't blow out with a loud sound like these things can. The Buttkicker mini LFE also is quieter, feels less "buzzy," and is much more powerful and articulate for SimVibe, even at "only" 90w. They are also all metal, whereas this is plastic and cheap feeling. Mine has been great.

Paired with an older onkyo receiver I had tied to the LFE on another onkyo after some playing around I found a good spot to mount it and get it wired thought it would be able to move both seats but found it only works good for one which it stated. Since tied to the LFE of and onkyo tx nr809 I get no voice noise only when the bass hits for movie sound tracks watched into the storm and felt every bit of the storms added bonus do to placement of my subwoofer and seating I felt the air moving too and since it’s winter it was cold really pulling me into it. All mounting hardware included didn’t have to modify anything. Finding the proper placement that cleared the recliner took some trial and error but back corner finally found its home. Will be purchasing another one for the other seat definitely adds another dimension to movies.

Let me be clear I've had many cheap tactical transducers from the Dayton pucks to the aura the claim that this is10 times louder than the aura is such utter lies 2x louder would be a lie they smell like the cheapest China plastic and makes me think they arnt going to last shure they are a bit more musical than any other cheap transducer a bit more accurate not much at all and that never seemed to matter that much to me they are quite large and hard to find a decent place to mount there made out of cheap ass PVC I am not impressed