Overview

We will review several popular options amongst sim racer as well as some not so common ones. Recently Dayton updated their range of products with new interchangeable mounting system and some of their most popular models now feature it. We will see also what it brings to the table.

All of the exciters come with pre-applied adhesive tape, which is quite solid and will hold them in place without issue. The only one labelled as bass shaker - the Dayton PUCK - needs different mounting solution due to its size and weight. We also tested with the same heavy duty adhesive tape - works quite OK:

Our exciting bunch

View from behind

This is a good comparison picture giving you relative feel how big each exciter is:

Exciters stacked by height

And here are those two awesome disks of power which we will take as baseline - full size, 50 Watts to rumble your bones:

Dayton Audio BST-1 and Aura Sound AST-2B-4

Weight

Weight could seem irrelevant, it is not like you will carry them on your back, but actually has significance here. As exciter coils are attached to the mount surface actually the whole body vibrates. Weighting them is good comparison on how much moving mass they have. Exclusion here are of course the three bass shakers - they do not have any external moving components and everything is enclosed inside the body:

Pricing and Specifications

All prices are current at the time when the review was published. We will take into account the new Exciter models - they are considerably more expensive but in our opinion the added value of the new mount is worth it. More on that you can read further on in the review.

Now is time to deep dive and go over some of the exciters' features in Closer Look, Test Bench and Sequence: