Bass sensation like a loud car system in home?


I know this is a bit of a silly question but bear with me here:

What options are there for getting that feeling of a powerful subwoofer vibrating through your body in your home?  I know the easiest option would be to just put a capable subwoofer next to your seating and let it hit as hard as it can.  I'm also not trying to make all of my neighbors hate me so I'm looking for some creative solutions to pulling it off at reasonable residential volumes.

I'm thinking that some combination of tactile transducers in the couch and a subwoofer next to or also installed inside of the couch would get pretty close.  Being right under your body I wonder what kind of decibels would actually be required to get a bass massage going.  Without the sensation of the high volume bass it also might just seem silly and be a complete waste of time aside from watching movies.

Thoughts?
yukispier

Showing 2 responses by unreceivedogma

Why would you ever want that? When I think of car audio, I think of the ghetto blasters that are played so loud that the sound of the plastic car body sounding like it’s gonna vibrate clear off the car frame is louder than the music itself. 
Let me put it this way: with my new (last couple of weeks) sub placement, I am now getting bass so powerful that I can’t imagine something similar in a car. It would be far too distracting and therefore dangerous. 

I listen to almost all genres of music. Some of them require some thud to the bass, even classical. It’s nice to FEEL the cellos and double bass at the end the adagio to Mahler’s 5th under Karajan’s wand. 

The one genre I almost never listen to is rap: with the exception of a handful of artists such as Notorious BIG and going back to Grandmaster Flash, I find it to be too misogynistic and with a range of emotion that rarely ventures beyond vicious anger and violence.