-- Evergreen Tech RumbleFX Head Phones
-- Price: ~ $42.00
USD
-- 8.09.2001
-- By: GideonX
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With constant new games available for the PC system,
speakers and head phones are becoming more and more important.
Not only do they provide a sound output to the user, but it may be
vital to a regular novice game player or an intermediate. Now
with the next step in user interacting with any game, a new type of
output is becoming more popular, force feedback. Arcade video
game machines have long been utilizing this to get the user 'into
the game'. Whether you're driving in the Daytona 500 or being
shot at, the controller sometimes may move or shake along with the
action.
Having witnessed the success of force feedback
equipment, Evergreen Technologies has went ahead and introduced a
product with this feature. It isn't a controller, but
headphones that react to the action on screen. Evergreen
Technologies has been around for a long time now. Mostly known
for their CPU upgrade solutions, they have since entered into the
multimedia market with their RumbleFX
line of products.
Not only do these headphones shake with
the action, they also provide the regular functionality of a quality
pair of headphones. Here are specs on this unit:
Driver Unit: 40mm diameter dome
Diameter: 57mm diameter actuator
Impedance: 32 Ohm
Sensitivity: 102dB S.P.L. at 1 Khz
Max Power Handling: 500 mW
Frequency response: 5-28,000Hz
Power Requirements: 3V
Cord: Approximately 4m(13ft)
Stereo Plug 3.5mm(.14") diameter
Included within the package is everything you need to
start blasting away.
- RumbleFX force feedback vibration and volume control unit
- Two AAA batteries (Approximately 20 hours of gameplay and/or
music listening time)
- A stereo headphone conversion jack
- Soft cushion earcup on lightweight adjustable headband
- 90-day Warranty
To put it simply, the way these headphones work is the
use of Bass Amplifiers. These are just like smaller sub woofers,
which are not available usually on headphones. So when there is
pumping bass, your head phones will shake along with it.
From a few sources, these headphones were produced
under a different name through Radio Shack. The RS version was
introduced a while back but never received the response necessary, so
they were pulled from the market. Similar in style, the RS
version did use larger batteries and were slightly heavier.
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