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World’s Largest Horn Subwoofer Makes Impressive Home Theater

Greg Chaffins

World's largest subwoofer

Most people know that a quality subwoofer can shake a whole room. But audio designer Roberto Dell Curti has built a subwoofer that does not shake just the room. Rather, the room is part of the horn subwoofer, and no doubt it can shake the whole house.  Underneath his impressive home theater setup, the ground has been excavated and in its place, two horn channels 21 feet long running 3 feet deep give a home to the beast labeled the Real Total Horn. Each channel is powered by eight 18 inch woofers, giving a total of 16 woofers that are pumping thousands of watts of energy into the massive sound chambers.

Is it effective? Well, the biggest horn sub in the world can hit lows down to 10Hz, and create a virtual wave of sound energy while doing it.  And if at some point we read that Italy has broken off from the mainland and floated away, I think we might know the reason why.

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Rock Band 2 Set List Has Been Released

Greg Chaffins

At the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles, Harmonix and MTV Games announced the song set list for the much anticipated sequel Rock Band 2.  The game is expected to be released for the Xbox 360 platform this September.

The Rock Band "music platform" has been extremely successful, selling in excess of 2.5 million game units (and at $169 for the setup this is not a small amount of money).  The game has also sold over 15 million individual tracks, which sell for $1.99 each.  With that kind of background numbers the anticipation for Rock Bands 2 has continued to grow.

The Rock Band 2 track list:

  • AC/DC – "Let There Be Rock"
  • AFI – "Girl’s Gone Grey"
  • Alanis Morissette – "You Oughta Know"
  • Alice in Chains – "Man in the Box"
  • Allman Brothers – "Ramblin’ Man"
  • Avenged Sevenfold – "Almost Easy "
  • Bad Company – "Shooting Star"
  • Beastie Boys – "So Whatcha Want"
  • Beck – "E-Pro "
  • Bikini Kill – "Rebel Girl"
  • Billy Idol – "White Wedding Pt. I"
  • Blondie – "One Way or Another"
  • Bob Dylan – "Tangled Up in Blue"
  • Bon Jovi – "Livin’ on a Prayer"
  • Cheap Trick – "Hello There"
  • Devo – "Uncontrollable Urge"
  • Dinosaur Jr. – "Feel the Pain"
  • Disturbed – "Down with the Sickness"
  • Dream Theater – "Panic Attack"
  • Duran Duran – "Hungry Like the Wolf"
  • Elvis Costello – "Pump It Up"
  • Fleetwood Mac – "Go Your Own Way"
  • Foo Fighters – "Everlong"
  • Guns N’ Roses – "Shackler’s Revenge"
  • Interpol – "PDA"
  • Jane’s Addiction – "Mountain Song"
  • Jethro Tull – "Aqualung"
  • Jimmy Eat World – "The Middle"
  • Joan Jett – "Bad Reputation"
  • Journey – "Anyway You Want It"
  • Judas Priest – "Painkiller"
  • Kansas – "Carry On Wayward Son"
  • L7 – "Pretend We’re Dead"
  • Lacuna Coil – "Our Truth"
  • Linkin Park – "One Step Closer"
  • Lit – "My Own Worst Enemy"
  • Lush – "De-Luxe"
  • Mastodon – "Colony of Birchmen"
  • Megadeth – "Peace Sells"
  • Metallica – "Battery"
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones – "Where’d You Go"
  • Modest Mouse – "Float On"
  • Motorhead – "Ace of Spades"
  • Nirvana – "Drain You"
  • Norman Greenbaum – "Spirit in the Sky"
  • Panic at the Disco – "Nine in the Afternoon"
  • Paramore – "That’s What You Get"
  • Pearl Jam – "Alive"
  • Presidents of the USA – "Lump"
  • Rage Against the Machine – "Testify"
  • Ratt – "Round & Round"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Give it Away"
  • Rise Against – "Give it All"
  • Rush – "The Trees"
  • Silversun Pickups – "Lazy Eye"
  • Smashing Pumpkins – "Today"
  • Social Distortion – "I Was Wrong"
  • Sonic Youth – "Teenage Riot"
  • Soundgarden – "Spoonman"
  • Squeeze – "Cool for Cats"
  • Steely Dan – "Bodhitsattya"
  • Steve Miller Band – "Rock’n Me"
  • Survivor – "Eye of the Tiger"
  • System of a Down – "Chop Suey"
  • Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
  • Tenacious D – "Master Exploder"
  • Testament – "Souls of Black"
  • The Donnas – "New Kid in School"
  • The Go-Go’s – "We Got the Beat"
  • The Grateful Dead – "Alabama Getaway"
  • The Guess Who – "American Woman"
  • The Muffs – "Kids in America"
  • The Offspring – "Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Separated)"
  • The Replacements – "Alex Chilton"
  • The Who – "Pinball Wizard"

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Agreement Allows Xbox 360 to Stream Netflix Movies

Greg Chaffins

Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console has stepped its streaming video game up in a deal made with Netflix.  Microsoft announced the agreement at the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit in Los Angeles.

This agreement gives Netflix's 8 million subscribers another method to watch their streaming services, and complements nicely with their recent startup agreement with the Roku standalone player.  The deal should give Xbox subscribers access to over 10,000 movies and TV shows without the extra requirement of a computer, although membership in both Xbox Live and Netflix will probably be required.

The Xbox 360 Fall update is expected to provide the added functionality.

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Classic UFO Pictures: 1942 Battle of Los Angeles

Greg Chaffins

February 25, 1942 Los Angeles, CA A blackout is declared and the residents, fearful of a Japanese raid, turn off the lights as  alarms sound. Anti-aircraft guns puncture the sky in an attempt to hit unidentified objects coming in form over the ocean, and large beams are scanning the sky in search of attackers. Witness report red or silver colored small objects moving at a high altitude in formation. The objects were moving fast, and they were unharmed by the Anti Aircraft pounding. The large object in the picture was reported to be unhurt by the military’s salvos. This photograph is also known as the “Battle of Los Angeles”. (photo: United States Military)