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<blockquote data-quote="Rudy" data-source="post: 5543065" data-attributes="member: 568035">Not publishing performance testing data can&#039;t really be held against any of these guys. Until they can all agree on a standard and procedure, any numbers they publish are questionable. Dynamic Control publishes ASTM E756@ 200 Hz results, but without complete results and the methodology report that goes with the results, it is impossible to know what we are comparing. Add to that a history of other companies publishing bogus results and it gets even more complicated. I&#039;d love to see comprehensive testing but we aren&#039;t going to see it until somebody is willing to pay an objective moderator to oversee the tests and publish the results.&quot;Visoelasticity&quot; describes a continuum between fully viscous and fully elastic. More rubbery just means the material is more toward the elastic end of the scale. I have no idea what the ideal is, but I have been playing with a product that is much more viscous than any of the other products I&#039;ve tested and it performs VERY well. It might be messy to install, but still. Again, objective testing data would be helpful. I don&#039;t think we can extrapolate performance from adhesive consistency but we can be absolutely certain that viscoelasticity is essential and that thicker foil performs better than thinner.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rudy, post: 5543065, member: 568035"] Not publishing performance testing data can't really be held against any of these guys. Until they can all agree on a standard and procedure, any numbers they publish are questionable. Dynamic Control publishes ASTM E756@ 200 Hz [B]results[/B], but without complete results and the methodology report that goes with the results, it is impossible to know what we are comparing. Add to that a history of other companies publishing bogus results and it gets even more complicated. I'd love to see comprehensive testing but we aren't going to see it until somebody is willing to pay an objective moderator to oversee the tests and publish the results. "Visoelasticity" describes a continuum between fully viscous and fully elastic. More rubbery just means the material is more toward the elastic end of the scale. I have no idea what the ideal is, but I have been playing with a product that is much more viscous than any of the other products I've tested and it performs VERY well. It might be messy to install, but still. Again, objective testing data would be helpful. I don't think we can extrapolate performance from adhesive consistency but we can be absolutely certain that viscoelasticity is essential and that thicker foil performs better than thinner. [/QUOTE]

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