Reviewed by Oscar
I recommend this product
5 Stars
This impressed me so much. It really added to my home theater. Thank you!
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Reviewed by Roger B.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Excellent Addition to My Home Theater
Pros: More than sufficient power (at 50% of maximum) to fully energize the LFE to my main seating couch in a convincing fashion, even with 3 adults on it. Relatively easy to install (once you realize not to push the speaker wire too far into the binding post; only bare wire touching the post is necessary). Con: The wireless communication between the remote sender and the amplifier's receiver is VERY finnicky at under 5 feet (even with direct line of sight); this has necessitated multiple re-pairings of the two devices, even without a definitive cause for the occurrence. Overall: I'm VERY pleased to have added the ButtKicker to my HT!!
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Reviewed by James L.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Happy addition after some tweaks
I'm so glad I worked through the various issues I had integrating this into my system. It works very well and adds to the experience in my 5.1.4 setup. Everyone i demo this for loves it. I find myself smiling when I watch movies. Last night I watched Ford vrs Ferrari and that inspired me to leave this review.
Some things to consider... The amp is set at 100hz which is way too high for movies. I ended up buying a 50hz FMOD RCA crossover and that smoothed things out.
The couch kit didn't work for me. This thing hits so hard it was lifting my LoveSac couch which resulted in some intense (almost scary) flapping on the floor. I would have returned it for this reason. Instead, I drilled some holes and mounted it directly to the couch base. Problem solved!
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Reviewed by Clarence G. s.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Couch kit
Came as described. The mounts help with the rattle on the floor. Easy to put kicker on mount plate. Rounds out surround system completley.
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Reviewed by Blake G.
Verified Buyer
I recommend this product
Almost Perfect
Much better performance than I expected. Installed this on a 3 seat couch, used just the iso feet and the buttkicker under one leg. It kicks much harder than expected, and all the included pcs worked out of the box. I like how extra iso feet were included just in case you have a larger couch.
The buttkicker advance is capable of some very subtle effects similar to how the PS5 controller haptics work. It required very little setup from me, I thought I was going to have to time align it, set a low pass filter to blend with my subwoofers.... I didn't have to do any of that, I just the intensity to where I want it and leave it alone. I especially like that the amp wakes up when sent an LFE channel and doesn't require me to get up and turn it on, this feature is not advertised but was a nice surprise.
I like the effect to be rather subtle for films, I keep the intensity around 20 and use movie mode to filter the output. In video games, I set it to game mode and run it nearly flat out at 40 or 45 on the intensity dial. The haptic feedback for this like gunshots in FPS games is very immersive.
2 things that keep this from being 5 stars:
1) The included screws are extremely soft and I stripped 2 of them putting the iso feet on, go grab some real wood screws to avoid this.
2) The included amp has no way to dim or turn the front panel off and it is extremely bright. Also the intensity scale is 0-50 rather than 0-100 which seems like a weird choice to me, not a dealbreaker…
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