One of the booth I alway check out at CES belongs to Alpine. They make a new demo car every year just for the CES. However, this year there was no car. Instead, they made a boat to promote their new marine line of amps and speaker.
One item that Alpine has new at their booth this year was the sound chamber of doom. The object is to step into the chamber and see how long you can last with 16 Alpine subwoofers pumping over 150dB of sound at you. This is loud enough to make you go deaf within seconds if you don’t wear ear protection. Even with protection, the pressure buildup is incredible. You put your thumb on the button. The subwoofers will play and will stop the instant you release the button. How long did we last? Watch the video and find out.
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Well, what can I say…you should have learned from the first guy’s experience and your ears would have definitely been grateful
Alan Johnson
I would have lasted about the same as John most likely. lol
That looks great, I want a go. Your face, lmao!
Looks painful.
looks interesting. would be nice to have… not sure what it is doing at ces though
You could tell just by the look on John’s face how loud that was. lol.
Really.
Does John really need this to make his head explode? I think not.
His ego will do that any day now.
While it doesn’t look much on video I know for a fact it would be completely extreme!
I wouldn’t have lasted more than a couple of seconds lol. CES looks like so much fun this year
I’m a bit surprised you didn’t wet yourself!
My nephew would probably stay the whole day in there
John Chow Owns!!!! Nice Shirt you got there!
haha!! i saw that too!
I used to be way into car audio and I would have loved to try out the sound booth. Looks quite exciting.
Wow that seemed crazy
Wow, that is just amazing…I hope your ears are ok John
-Mike
That`s a really nice place to hang out, not for long … but really great experience indeed.
You only lasted 3 seconds…. you only like lasted 3 seconds… said the man John Chow who only lasted half a second…. Dunno how long I can survive that.
Looks dangerous and certainly beats a couple of 12′s in the trunk!
Having a “sound chamber of doom” is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of (no pun intended)! Did they also have a “hit me over the skull repeatedly with a baseball bat” room? Is Alpine begging to be sued?
At those kind of sound levels you can do PERMANENT damage to your hearing VERY quickly. However, the hearing loss isn’t the worst part. Nope. Not by a long shot. Almost everyone has experienced ringing in the ear (after a concert, for example); but what happens if it doesn’t go away? It’s called tinnitus — and it’s one of the worst things that can happen to a person (and, unfortunately, I speak from experience). Tinnitus can result from a single exposure to a very loud noise or over time (for example, from listening to an iPod too loudly) and there is no cure.
Protect your hearing. Wear earplugs when needed and avoid extremely loud noise entirely (for more info, visit http://www.ata.org). If you take my simple advice, you’ll never have to know how much pain I just saved you.
you and morgan are hilarious