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In Reply to: Re: Sean: The width and depth of the felt ring makes... posted by Sean H on July 29, 2002 at 11:53:46:
little Radio Shack speakers is flush with the front baffle (I consider this recessed). Idealy it should probably come out more, but I am too lazy to spend much time reworking a pair of $5 speakers. These are the speakers that I posted about and the felt made them sound a lot better (not as beamy).I have only used wool felt as I have read that wool is better (something about the fibers and their configuration that I do not quite understand). Our local fabric store sells precut 12" squares of wool felt for under $1 (probably cut from remnants/end of rolls that would otherwise be unsellable.
I would start with the little dots to see if any of the exposed screw heads are creating something wrong. I often see little self stick felt dots in drug/dime stores, but don't know what the felt is made of. I am certain, that as I, you will be amazed by what a difference just a single dot can make when it is placed close to the driver. With the Castle speakers the the tweeter screws were recessed (the way they should be), but the four screws holding the woofer were not. It took me a while to figure out that the two woofer screws, closest to the tweeter, were the culprits (causing a hard sound in the HF's @ higher volumes).
I have some very thick 1/8" wool felt but never tried this as the thin stuff made such a drastic change in the sound (it does however make a decent TT mat).
The best thing is that you don't have to mess anything up in order to experiment with this (it's completely reversable).
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- Hi Sean: The top/front of the tweeter dome in the... - DeKay 13:33:13 07/29/02 (1)
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