I'm curious how intense subwoofer tactility is supposed to be and if it only occurs at dangerously high volumes. I do most of my listening in ultra-nearfield with two Genelec 8341s and a 7360 practically at my feet.
I keep the volume to just under 80db usually (allowing for transients) and have the subbass response reigned in almost perfectly by GLM at my listening position. I have a downward sloping EQ curve with about a +4db sub-bass boost.
But tactility isn't much of a thing for me. I only notice it on certain (usually very well-recorded songs) or basshead tracks with massive transient spikes. Even then it's mostly just my feet that feel the floor vibrating and occasionally I feel it in my calves and hairs too if it's especially loud. It's certainly not anything close to chest-thumping or what a sub-pac would lead you to expect having a subwoofer is like.
I have played around with flipping the calibration on and off during tracks, and while I do certainly get more floor shaking from this, it's all just a result of a big volume increase from room modes, which makes me wonder if tactility is even possible without risking your ears. Or is it a function of the total power output of the sub and I'd need to be sitting much further away to run the sub harder while receiving the same amount of pressure at the eardrums?
I keep the volume to just under 80db usually (allowing for transients) and have the subbass response reigned in almost perfectly by GLM at my listening position. I have a downward sloping EQ curve with about a +4db sub-bass boost.
But tactility isn't much of a thing for me. I only notice it on certain (usually very well-recorded songs) or basshead tracks with massive transient spikes. Even then it's mostly just my feet that feel the floor vibrating and occasionally I feel it in my calves and hairs too if it's especially loud. It's certainly not anything close to chest-thumping or what a sub-pac would lead you to expect having a subwoofer is like.
I have played around with flipping the calibration on and off during tracks, and while I do certainly get more floor shaking from this, it's all just a result of a big volume increase from room modes, which makes me wonder if tactility is even possible without risking your ears. Or is it a function of the total power output of the sub and I'd need to be sitting much further away to run the sub harder while receiving the same amount of pressure at the eardrums?