|
Planar Speaker Asylum Welcome! Need support, you got it. Or share your ideas and experiences. |
|
|
|
Planar Speaker Asylum Welcome! Need support, you got it. Or share your ideas and experiences. |
|
In Reply to: RE: Bluetack and cinder block posted by cawson@onetel.com on March 3, 2017 at 17:38:46:
Agree about slate, just that it is flaky to deal with. I bought a couple of packs of cut slate tiles that I selected for lack of ringing when tapped by a small steel rod for damping purposes.
Spiking is a better method of transferring energy to the slate because of the high pressure contact at the spike. Bolting slate to anything is a difficult proposition and it will fall apart that way, just crumble around the bolt due to the high vibration energy. It has a layered structure and you want to transmit energy to the top layer and have it absorbed into the structure rather than transmit to the structure via the bolt, or the area under the nut that has been weakened by drilling the hole for the bolt.
As Josh suggests, the issue is that each location type requires different strategies. Each type of floor and support structure requires its own particular solution.
Absorption with pliant materials is a good damping method if you can fix one side to a stationary mass. Otherwise it is just another mass being vibrated. It will reduce vibration but not nearly as much as when it is used as a constrained layer in the support. An example of this is with a friend's planar box speaker that had a lively cabinet even after applying gobs of soundcoat damping. The solution we came up with was to build an external box for 3 sides of the speaker and the bottom made of corian and fill the spaces between the boxes with a compliant setting material (bitumen based).. Deadened the bass section. The top section was left on its own to avoid diffraction near the tweeter, so had a bolt run through it with neoprene under the nuts. Now it is amazing.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- RE: Bluetack and cinder block - Satie 21:49:17 03/03/17 (0)
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
