Damping Speaker Basket Arms

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Posted by Dryginger2 (A) on November 14, 2014 at 16:04:24

Are you troubled by any roughness in the sound and wonder what's causing it? It may be that the vibration from voice-coil activation travels down the arms of the speaker basket holding the membrane and is partially corrupting its sound reproduction. 'Dynamic Driver Tuning Bands' are the specifically designed solution to this problem supplied by Ron Hedrich of Marigo Audio.

Lacking the funds for that purchase, I took white Teflon tape and cut a long piece in half lengthwise to provide two thin, long strips. Then wrapped a single 5mm-wide white Teflon ring one-and-a-half times around each of the eight arms of the mid-range/ woofer baskets of one speaker. Next I compared all the music playing first from the untreated speaker and then from the other to find that the narrow Teflon rings had eliminated the roughness. So finished the task and listened to the sound coming from both channels at once.

An effective, low cost tweak to quickly apply and enjoy...

DG

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Topic - Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Dryginger2 16:04:24 11/14/14 (17)

I did mine - Awe-d-o-file 10:23:33 11/15/14 (3)

AND the outside - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 08:29:28 11/19/14 (1)

RE: AND the outside - Awe-d-o-file 18:32:08 11/19/14 (0)

Similarly... - R Browne 08:57:32 11/17/14 (0)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Mike B. 10:01:34 11/15/14 (0)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - hawkmoon 06:15:45 11/15/14 (1)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Dryginger2 08:19:52 11/15/14 (0)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Ubiquitous Biscuit 18:38:31 11/14/14 (2)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Dryginger2 08:17:49 11/15/14 (1)

Just what I need, that said! - Lou S 06:39:11 11/18/14 (0)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - unclestu 17:58:47 11/14/14 (6)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Lou S 06:41:01 11/18/14 (0)

Damping the basket v. damping the back wave - rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com 10:07:06 11/15/14 (1)

RE: Damping the basket v. damping the back wave - Lou S 06:42:42 11/18/14 (0)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Dryginger2 18:15:18 11/14/14 (2)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - unclestu 18:29:15 11/14/14 (1)

RE: Damping Speaker Basket Arms - Dryginger2 17:45:32 11/15/14 (0)

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