B-quiet?

[BennyLava]

Any of you guys ever tried B-quiet extreme? It's a lot like dynamat. I think it used to be called Brown Bread (for some strange reason) but they changed their name. Just wanted to know if anyone here had any experience with it, and if it was any good? How does it stack up against other deadeners?

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[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

There's a reason nobody knows a lot about it. Stick with the good stuff, and stay away from e-dead and fatmat

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

You don't want to use asphalt "based" products.

 

[BennyLava]

It's not asphalt based. It's butyl like all the rest.

 

[BennyLava]

There's a reason nobody knows a lot about it. Stick with the good stuff, and stay away from e-dead and fatmat

So what is "the good stuff"? Dynamat?

 

[Anthony Collova 10+ year member]

Here is the skinny

Bquiet Extreme is Asphalt

Bquiet Ultimate is buytl

Bquiet Ultimate is the same material as Raammat BXT (made at the same place, shares the same specs)

Rick from Raammat came out with a new product recently that is supposed to be better than the BXT material.

Brown bread used to be made in the UK.

Stereo-types in canada used to be the North american distributor for it.

They pulled out about 4 years ago and Stereo-types replaced the Braown Bread with Bquiet Ultimate. Neither of which are anything close to the qulaity and performance of Dynamat Extreme.

Our of all the ones listed I would probably try out Ricks new Raammat II product. Even though it has a soft foil, it is still twice as thick as the foil on the B-quiet materials.

If you can swing the cash, then Dynamat is the way to go out oif the ones listed in this thread.

Hope that helps

ANT

 

[Rudy 10+ year member]

B-Quiet Extreme is asphalt. B-Quiet Ultimate is butyl. Both have much thinner foil than Dynamat Xtreme and Dynamat Xtreme uses a superior adhesive. Brown Bread was an asphalt product with a 4 mil foil (like Dynamat's) that was manufactured in the UK and imported for the North American market by B-Quiet. B-Quiet is in Canada.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

There's a reason nobody knows a lot about it. Stick with the good stuff, and stay away from e-dead and fatmat

have you used either of those products before or just going with the masses of haters and giving opinion based on that? i just usually only hear bad things about these two products from people that have never used it, where the people that have used it say they are good products.

from what ive heard from people that have actually used FATMAT is that its a good product if you are on a budget. theres also a few pretty high end installers over on DIY that still use e dead and say theyve never had a problem with it.

 

[Ctesibius 10+ year member]

from what ive heard from people that have actually used FATMAT is that its a good product if you are on a budget. theres also a few pretty high end installers over on DIY that still use e dead and say theyve never had a problem with it.

That's because quite honestly most people don't have a clue about sound deadening. They think that just because they stuck it on, and it (possibly) hasn't fallen off yet and things rattle a little less, that it's a good product. When it, in fact, isn't that easy.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

That's because quite honestly most people don't have a clue about sound deadening. They think that just because they stuck it on, and it (possibly) hasn't fallen off yet and things rattle a little less, that it's a good product. When it, in fact, isn't that easy.

but you have to understand that with anything else in the consumer market, some people are happy getting an OK product if they can save some money. not everyone is looking for the high end best product. so if it hasnt fallen off and it got rid of most of the rattles then they got what they paid for. if those other products cost the same as the best then thered be a problem. right?

obviously if you have the money to go with top of the line then by all means thats the right thing to do.

 

[Ctesibius 10+ year member]

There is a difference between a budget product that sort of works, and a good product.

For example; My wife bought one of those really cheap DVD recorders for whatever reason. It recorded the movies just as it was supposed to. But the picture was pretty crappy. Even just running a video feed straight thru it would cause the picture to lessen in quality. It had a crappy video section. But it still sorta "worked as advertised" (until it died), it recorded to DVD's. I got what I paid for, that doesn't make it a good product.

Don would be much better at this discussion than myself as to the sound deadening. But the effectiveness of low quality sound deadener deteriorates over time, even if the product hasn't fallen off. There is a case to be made that less higher quality deadener is better than more low quality deadener.

 

[Rudy 10+ year member]

There is the case to be made that less better deadener is better than more low quality deadener.

That's really the key and the case to be made is very strong. Since I'm in this business now I only comment generically, but in the testing I've done it takes 6X or more of a low quality butyl/aluminum foil product and 10X or more of an asphalt product to approach the performance of products like Cascade, Second Skin and Dynamat Xtreme. With differences in performance like that price per square foot differences need to be looked at in a new light.

 

[BennyLava]

You don't want to use asphalt "based" products.

I will take everyone's advice, and I won't be using asphalt based products. But just out of curiosity, why not? What is so bad about B-Quiet Extreme?

 

[Rudy 10+ year member]

Asphalt is a very poor vibration damper. It is also much less stable than butyl. When it's fresh it melts at 185°F. This is actually a fairly easily reached temperature at the sheet metal of a car, in the sun, during the summer. What makes this worse is that asphalt is mixed with rubber compounds to stabilize it and raise its melting temperature to 180°F. Over time the rubber deteriorates and the materials heat tolerance drops steadily. After a year or two it can get low enough to melt at much lower temperatures. Might be worth the risk if the stuff worked well, but it doesn't - so why bother?

 

[genxx 10+ year member]

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