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[miniman5]

Helo i was just lisning the radio whilst cleaning my beast and they said that "boy racers" the "soop up" there car sterio's are getting some kind of pain in there chest and the doctors say the bass is damaging there lungs or some thing because of the vibration! :nugget: im not guna get a sub or n e fin for a while now! did any one else here it??

[Miniman]

i neva herd that watstation was it on i had kerrang on or if it was ontht i wasnt listnin propperly

[Dom]

never heard that before.

[philster]

yeah it can hurt you and indead kill you. I don't think you'll have to much to worry about unless you've got a 150db system in your min though.
I'll give you two instances

The first is about a mate of mine who knew a guy who had built a demo van for a firm in wigan or somewhere. This was fitted with i think 10 18" cerwin vega competition subs and is bloody loud. After about 30 secs of being sat in there one of the lads got a severe nose bleed. Needless to say he didn't die or anything but it makes you think.

The second i read on a car audio advice page a few yaers ago and is about two car audio fanatics in america (trust the yanks!). they built a van to use for competition and got sponsored off a major manufacturer (who wished to remain nameless, you'll find out why?) After building the enclosures, mounting the subs and prepping the van (you know soundedening and bullet proof glass!) they gave it a test run with the spl meter on. They cranked up the volume and the bass kicked in, then one of them wound the window down and there was so much pressuer inside the cabin that the sudden change burst some vital blood vessels in there brain and it killed them both! Ouch.

[tom]

Might be related rather to smoking bongs, maybe. I can't imagine that doing you any good.

[rob mini]

ive been givena slight nose bleed from my friends escort with 3 12inch audiobahn subs in it but was nothing serious.

your more likely to damage ur ears with it though as it gets quite painful after a minute or so - got the nosebleed after 5 mins. Unless you take out the backseat and stick atleast a pair of competition subs in it with monoblocks powering them i doubt this would happen anways.

rob

[miniman5]

WOW! but id be ok in my mini with one 10" right?

[Woody]

The lad on the news had one 12inch sub and 1000watt amp in .....a fiat panda !
and put it on loud , this caused a calapsed lung , this is usualy only fatal if both lungs calapse .

[miniman5]

how does it claps your lung?

[lewis]

apparently if the body takes between 160 and 180 db then it can disrupt the beating pattern of your heart and cause it to stop :nugget: . wheres cousin ........? oh he was killed by alpine.....

[Dom]

[miniman5]

so what hapend then? ohh he got bass'd to death, ohh i am sorry dear...... lol

[tom]

What a good thing to have written on your gravestone.

"Killed by Alpine"

[rob mini]

WOW! but id be ok in my mini with one 10" right?

dont think u got too much 2 worry about lol

rob

[lewis]

dont know if being killed by subs is glory or embaraasment, cardiac arrest is caused by your heart beating wrong, so this does similiar, im sure a 10 inch sub will be fine though