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In Reply to: Metal powder posted by Mark Kelly on January 3, 2005 at 15:53:48:
another long and winding road... silver has a nice essential tone and a decent density. The design goal is closer to spectral shaping than pure vibration elimination. Brass has often been cited as having a desirable spectral response, Mapleshade offers a selection of brass cones, dampers, and the like based on their opinion that brass has the best perceived sound of all metallic or ceramic damping options. Silver may be yet superior but not considered as a commercially viable choice. Silver does have a distinct, musical resonant peak. Even large ingots of silver have a sweet, bright sound when dropped. A fascinating possibility is that a lacquer coating such as C37 which is inherently euphonic could be "tuned" by a careful mixture of diamond, metal and/or mineral powders, tungsten carbide... the major hurdle with super heavy particles like W or WC is that they won't stay suspended. Keeping diamond in suspension is difficult enough. I was thinking that a large surface area silver micro flake would have a better chance of staying up.
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- here the goal is tonality vs. pure damping - tonemaniac 21:01:46 01/03/05 (0)
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