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| ButtKicker BK-GR Gamer | 
 enlarge | Brand: Buttkicker
Category: CE
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $65.99
You Save: $83.96 (56%)
New (4) from $65.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 10506
Platform: No Operating System
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 16
Dimensions (in): 15.2 x 11.6 x 11.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: BK-GR
Model: BK-GR
UPC: 840356463520
EAN: 0898114000067
ASIN: B000AOTLP6
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 ButtKicker Gamer August 3, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It does what it says it will. The materials and craftmanship are top notch. It adds to the realism of gaming, for me flight simming. For the most part, the only time you will feel it when flight simming is, taxiing, takeoff ( wheels rolling, gear up, flaps), and then landing, an excellent job here when the wheels hit the runway. I tried it with a music cd, and it works great.
A little pricey, but if you can find a rebate for it, then it's definately worth the price.
 bassgitars are not good for the un-astronauted nor is the shuttle launch July 5, 2006
2 out of 35 found this review helpful
Why would you hook a motor gasket to your easy office deluxe(or whatever chair) to rumble at the slightest hint of bass. Don't listen to Rush(as in NOT Limbaugh) with this thing. The heavy gitars and odviously Thu Gedster's thump'n bastad sword of dbase will kill! At least don't listen to Vapor Trails or Counter. Rapsters and techno music is perfect. As for games, most games are story emirsive that I play(as in RPG and the adventure types) but action FPS benifit slightly except for a loss in coordination if you use foot pedals or a percision mouse. Airplane, and rocket sims(there are few of those) are the best as you can max it for the rumble in the capsule sim affair.
Movies are only good at lower settings and your chair has to handle the pressure. Mine supports my fat-a&^ 250 lbs bod but rolls on tiled flooring. Get the bigger model that is for the couch and lounger.(unless the girl that lives next door is completely deaf and has sensitive feet, or so I'm told.).
Spaceships are cool and counter the tension of bordom and restlessness in the mundane world of rewardless afterhours with the feeling of exileration and "traveling". Try a sim as in MS Flight Pro 04 or the un-user friendly space stuff. An Army or War game or movie is good too, but everything else is just a novelty and I forget about it after a while and remove the hardware. Icaris(or other name) crash sequence in 'Planet of the Apes' is just priceless(max it to total distruction to "can yer krev".), a theme-park sim in 1968 even in ot-six. Also Star Trek Generatons "Riker Incident"(not so sim). but not the rest of the movie. Can thu chair and get a better boom. Subs are not as expensive even at "higher" RMS and "Burst". You won't upset the neighbors with a High RMS at low volume.(knock on wooded flooring panels).
P.S. Dudley Simpson's Doctor Who music is rediculous with this thing. Use with caughtion, can cause death from excessive laughter at the arch-humor levels.
It's great and kicks *ss! July 1, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Easy to hook up and works as advertised, now I can feel the music and live the movies! Splitter is included so you can connect subwoofer/speakers. Well worth the money.
 the amplifier is way too noisy June 21, 2006
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
The vibration effect is cool.
However, the nose from the amplifier's 2 tiny high-pitch fans is annoying and drowns your regular audio.
Rockin' out with my Buttkicker! June 12, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Thanks to the deal I found on Amazon, I got this Buttkicker for a great price. I am not exactly a gamer, I mainly use my computer for music listening. After a rather painless setup I turned this thing on and did notice the van volume. My computer is really really loud by most standards so it was drowned out completely, and when playing music it's completely inaudible. I am the sort of guy who would love to sit on his subwoofer, I am a huge fan of bass guitar and double bass drums. And when I turned this sucker on a started up some good music... I got nothing. After a few minutes of panic, I found a setting inside my Creative Speaker Settings (Audigy 2 ZS) called Bass Redirection, in the Bass Management tab, I turned that up about 1/8 of the way up... and there we go! I am loving this Buttkicker for my rocking out, tried it with some FPS games, and was not so much impressed. I found that using this device for games requires a lot more tweaking than music. I watched a Lord of the Rings and man; With the DVD and its LFE (Low Frequency Effects) you can really feel it when big stuff is going on.
Pros:
-Great for a music lover
-Works with my 7.1 system (Audigy 2 ZS and Gigaworks S750) you just gotta put the splitter at the sub/amp instead of the soundcard :D.
-Great deal on Amazon
-Great for DVD Audio
Cons:
-Vague setup instructions (But easy none the less)
-To much tweaking for games
-Pricey without the Rebate
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