Can any Sub give a Top Fuel launch feeling????

Yes there are a few, but depending on the size of the room, it would take multiples of them. Also just as important would be having very powerful main speakers. Very much of the sound of dragsters falls well above the bass range. Without the mains holding up their end, it's not going to sound realistic.

I played the track. Not much low end there. Chest thump comes from midbass and need good mains as mojo said.

Great website though. They got some extremely well recorded, high quality tracks.

Turn this one up: http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary...und_iid.512019

I would think recorded lightning strikes would have some great low end.

I Love it, good down to a solid 12hz anyway. Lots of bass frequency variaty there. Good energy 12-200hz

The top fuel track is nice too mostly centered 35-70hz but a little going on down to 15hz

Oddly enough I used this exact analogy to describe my experience with the JTR Captivator back in July of 2011 a few months after I heard the sub for the first time.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...2&postcount=17

Actually either the ported JTR Captivators or the more powerful horn design Orbit Shifters should do well in attempt to replicate the experience.

I've been to top fuel Harley drag racers with 800 hp bikes that run the 1/8 mile at > 200mph. A cousin of mine won the national championship a couple years back. Phil Schmidt.

JTR subs are the only subs I've experienced personally that can approach that craziness -- though to be perfectly frank - those 800hp engines with no exhaust systems are nearly otherworldly!

But as mojo said that isn't all bass that you experience at the dragstrip!

JTR speakers also makes mains that scream too!

http://jtrspeakers.com/

Top Fuel drag bikes are nowhere near the audio volume of a top fuel dragster.

We're talking 7-900 horsepower versus somewhere around 7000 horsepower. The power a nitrobike makes is a bit over the power required just to turn the supercharger on the top fuel dragster/funnycar engines.

The loudness of a top fuel dragster is a lot more than just the low range. Yes it has the chest rumble but they're so loud that they're beyond loud and into force. Loud enough that when we still recorded video onto tape, the volume from the stands would knock the tape off the recording head and the playback of the video would be distorted.

You need pure, effortless output. Loudness. Over most of the important audible spectrum. Subwoofers will never give you to effect of witnessing a Top Fuel dragster. You need serious mains to cover midrange and a huge bass array for midbass. Deep bass and any combination of 'ID' subs will never get you there.

Yeah, I agree, it isn't really going to happen. Even that recording sounds more like what I used to hear in the parking line at Sears Point/Infineon. In the stands it's supremely visceral. You know it's coming and yet your brain and body just go "OMGWTF?!" on each pass. I mean, it's a freakin' bomb with wheels.

I seriously doubt it. You're so far over the pressure level that any consumer system can provide. A quick point of reference (not taking into account things like cam profiles and real-world operation) is that a 500 inch engine at 8k is cycling 2 million cubic inches/minute.

Not to say that I wouldn't absolutely love to have a system that can realistically duplicate that feeling. I don't know any other match. Being on the starting line is almost like you're about to black out because of the pressure change. For those who haven't experienced it, it's like the world blurs out and then you start to lose your vision. Peripheral vision closes down to tunnel vision, then right before the last bit of blurred vision goes away, the run is over.


Force is a good word. It's so much beyond sound.

Probably a full arrangement from Seating Sound or JTR, and even then not really in reach for the "average customer".

^^^^do you mean Seaton Sound??? If so, AVS member counsil has 5 of the HP versions of the Submersive PLUS 4 epik empires. So are you saying he should be getting that feel?

I'm saying its probably "the closest thing" that is within reach of "the average customer". No, I do not believe he should (or will) get close to a top fuel dragster.

BTW, I said an arrangement from Seaton or JTR because, as several have mentioned here, there is more than just bass reproduction involved in this scenario. JTR and Seaton speakers are very well respected here. Have 10 subs isn't going to do much of anything in the mid/upper frequencies.

If someone wants to burn a copy and bring it the JTR's open house we can see how it sounds

And yet that pales in comparison to the sound coming from a triple jet engine semi-tractor drag setup

I have to say, that it might be cool to experience, I think it would take a lot of power to mimic a top fuel dragster doing a 1/4 mile. Years ago, I went to an event and I was able to go into the pits. It was really cool except for the fact that the fumes were toxic. During the race, I was standing at least 10-20 feet away from the track near the fence. When the first dragster went down the track, I literally felt the air pressure from it and it knocked me on my ass. For real. The shock wave was something I had never experienced before. It was pretty cool though. Not sure if a sub(s) can reproduce that.

My wife and I used to buy tickets to drag finals every year and find a way to skip all classes but top fuel... it is THE show to watch.

NO, there is not a theater setup that can replicate that experience.

I have been to maybe 10 events and it never gets old. Unreal pressurization.
I get giddy like a 10 year old getting an ice cream cone.

It could be done, but how practical is the question.

I suppose those decibel drag racing competition car stereos might be able to mimick the sound. To reproduce that sort of feeling, would require a sound system capable of 150db or so according to wikipedia.

Those are loud too. I am not sure what they make for horsepower but they do move a lot of air. However I still don't think they match the raw db from a top fuel drag motor.

Having been to Brainerd, MN years ago, for the Nationals, been to huge concerts with line arrays, and large sub systems that literally rip the air in and out of your lungs with every cycle, I still don't think there is anything close on earth that can come close to the fury of a Top Fuel Dragster / Funny Car. Possibly a pair of Danley's JH-90's in a small room with a couple of Rock Monsters?

Even up in the nose bleed section, your eyes jiggle in your head, your chest cavity resonates, and you can't begin to focus on the car during a run. It is beyond loud, even with double hearing protection. ( 33 db nr plugs + good shooting muffs )

Television doesn't even come close to doing them justice, the amount of air and fuel they process.

I have been in the pits during warm ups, and gotten a dose of nitromethane fumes. Not fun, since I wasn't prepared. Stumbing backwards through a retreating crowd with eyes, nose and throat burning wasn't cool. Getting a .090 thick copper head gasket out of Bernstein's engine, and a few pistons, one from Kalitta's engine made up for that though.

Honorable mention for "loud" at least in the HF is an un-muffled 2 stroke snowmobile engine screaming. What a crackle coming from the stingers!

Bolded, exactly what I mean. Try standing within 20 feet.

When I was living in the mainland, I frequented Byron drag strip in Illinois more than a few times. It was there that I witnessed both a top fuel (guy getting his license) run and at another time the jet semi.

The top fuel was loud and powerful for sure but the shear "pressure" and literal teeth rattling low frequency of the three jets was certainly more visceral than the fueler.

I wish I could remember where the photos of the jet are. Damn!
For both I was near the fence and so maybe 50-75ft away. Pretty much no contest in my mind, ears and bones

Gene

The noise of a large jet engine at close range can hit 140 db. This level will damage your hearing in a hurry

I've been relatively close (couple hundred feet) to F-15s and F-16s taking off, and those can get pretty damn loud. No idea how they would compare to a Top Fuel racer though D: