User`s guide

No Separate “Subwoofer Output”
If no “Subwoofer Output” exists on your processor / receiver/
preamp please visit our website, www.thebuttkicker.com,
or contact our technical support department.
Physical Mounting and Placement
Some consideration regarding the human sense of feeling:
Your brain is constantly making perceptions of your surroundings-
indoors or outdoors, size, shape and material of a room, etc.
Your brain and body have been doing this with all of your senses
since the day you were born, conrming and associating what it
hears with what it sees, feels, tastes and smells.
You probably at some time have become aware of something
or someone by seeing a shadow it cast within your view (its
effect on your environment) rather than seeing the item itself.
Have you ever “sensed” someone enter the room without them
making a sound? You were unconsciously aware of a change
in the room’s sound characteristics associated by your mind
with the addition of another person. Your brain and body
have “perceived” this many times before, whether you are
consciously aware of it or not. Your body also knows more about
its surroundings via the sense of feel than you probably realize.
The eld of entertainment has come great distances to capture
your senses of hearing and seeing, and the next major sense
to “capture” is your sense of feeling.
Our bodies feel sound through both air (momentary changes in
air pressure) and structure (i.e. the ground or oor on which
we stand). The speaker system supplies the air vibrations and
pressure changes we hear and feel in the air. The ButtKicker
supplies the structural vibrations.
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Mounting Considerations
General
The best way to understand the movement or shaking
potential of any structure is to rst identify areas that
will NOT shake: (see Figure 5)
• The earth will not shake. While this is not an absolutely
true statement, it is a very practical statement, and for
the purposes of this User’s Guide it will be considered
an absolute. (#1 in Figure 5)
• Any hard support or structure that vertically ties a
surface to earth denes a secondary “hard point;” a
point not allowed to shake by virtue of its connection
to the earth. For example, a supporting wall, concrete
slab, building foundation, pier, or column (#2 in
Figure 5).
What DOES shake:
• Any horizontal structure suspended between two or
more hard points will ex, bend and shake between
those hard points, depending on the construction and
rigidity of the suspended structure. For example, a
wood joist oor or a couch between its legs (#3 in
Figure 5).
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Figure 5
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