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<blockquote data-quote="VWBobby" data-source="post: 7096868" data-attributes="member: 624844">What he&#039;s referring to is adding clay to the speaker baffle/door panel to prevent vibrations.&nbsp; The added mass of the clay supposedly kills vibrations and also has a deadening effect due to the softer clay verses a hard plastic door or sheet metal door frame.The best way would be to build custom speaker baffles or door panels that are rigid so they don&#039;t vibrate or cause harmonics.&nbsp; Then you would want to cover the panel with a foam or fabric material that would deaden the panel and prevent reflected sound or reverberations.A lot of &quot;car audio&quot; people are not car people or mechanically inclined, so they chase their tail trying to solve problems.Why introduce more problems attempting to solve lesser problems?&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of these custom fiberglass door panels that most people are building are so hard and reflective that they actually create more problems altogether.&nbsp; If you were to build a rigid frame into them, and cover them with foam/fabric they would be a lot more acoustically &quot;dead&quot; - allowing the speaker to sound natural and minimizing reflected sound.I won&#039;t dissect the SDS website, but I will tell you there is enough info in there that the average person can develop a very sonically &quot;dead&quot; car environment using their techniques.&nbsp;&nbsp; In other words, keep your baffles and panels rigid, but make all surfaces absorbent so you are not bouncing sound waves around in the cabin or making artificial harmonics or reverberations. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VWBobby, post: 7096868, member: 624844"] What he's referring to is adding clay to the speaker baffle/door panel to prevent vibrations. The added mass of the clay supposedly kills vibrations and also has a deadening effect due to the softer clay verses a hard plastic door or sheet metal door frame. The best way would be to build custom speaker baffles or door panels that are rigid so they don't vibrate or cause harmonics. Then you would want to cover the panel with a foam or fabric material that would deaden the panel and prevent reflected sound or reverberations. A lot of "car audio" people are not car people or mechanically inclined, so they chase their tail trying to solve problems. Why introduce more problems attempting to solve lesser problems? A lot of these custom fiberglass door panels that most people are building are so hard and reflective that they actually create more problems altogether. If you were to build a rigid frame into them, and cover them with foam/fabric they would be a lot more acoustically "dead" - allowing the speaker to sound natural and minimizing reflected sound. I won't dissect the SDS website, but I will tell you there is enough info in there that the average person can develop a very sonically "dead" car environment using their techniques. In other words, keep your baffles and panels rigid, but make all surfaces absorbent so you are not bouncing sound waves around in the cabin or making artificial harmonics or reverberations. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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