In Reply to: Has anyone tried this tweak? posted by hondadanda on July 30, 2002 at 19:41:19:
Hi Danda. I once made my own redition of these with some neoprene I bought locally, which I used with a pair of B&W 601's years ago. I remember it did seem to help but it was not a dramatic change. The idea there is good, especially with some speaker designs.Fast forward. Did you see my thread a couple days ago about using felt material around tweeters? You might scroll foward and find it, kind of interesting. I went to a local fabric store that evening and bought a bit of wool based felt and tried applying some felt around the tweeters of my Paradox 1's for fun, as it seemed this tweeter could be prime for damping it's diffraction characteristics because it is so wide in dispersion. I've only done one experiment, where I've applied a large amount around the tweeter and interestingly enough it's made a very positive improvement. The amount of treble does not seem diminished or muffled in any way, it simply sounds cleaner, slighty sweeter but the biggest improvement is clearer definition of treble and subsequently depth definition and image definition. On some recordings it has been striking, the feeling of presence and seeing into the stage has been nicely enhanced. I'm still experimenting, but it's definitely interesting and fun!
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- Re: Has anyone tried this tweak? - Sean H 07:51:04 07/31/02 (10)
- Re: Has anyone tried this tweak? - JeffMO 08:32:36 07/31/02 (2)
- Re: Has anyone tried this tweak? - Sean H 09:29:42 07/31/02 (1)
- thanks -nt- - JeffMO 10:03:45 07/31/02 (0)
- Re: Has anyone tried this tweak? - hondadanda 08:05:58 07/31/02 (6)
- Re: Has anyone tried this tweak? - Sean H 09:11:53 07/31/02 (5)
- Sean, thanks, where did you get the rubber cement (NT) - hondadanda 12:08:34 07/31/02 (4)
- Are you serious? - Sean H 13:00:45 07/31/02 (3)
- Re: Are you serious? - hondadanda 20:11:10 07/31/02 (0)
- Re: Are you serious? - JeffMO 13:27:10 07/31/02 (1)
- Too much rubber cement and the sound gets gooey and hard :) nt - Sean H 20:23:18 07/31/02 (0)