How properly covered internal sides of enclosures for speakers with a passive radiator?


My question to people who  have  practical experience to build a sealed (closed) cabinets for speakers with passive radiator?
I have experience to build speakers with ported cabinets, but now I've decided to build a three-way sealed cabinet using one woofer in the middle of the front panel and one passive  radiator below the woofer.  When I built the cabinets with ports, to minimize reflection and etc, I put felt material on all  interior panels : left, right, rear, bottom and top panels (except the front panel). I know, passive radiator works using air pressure from woofer. 

lysha

Speakers with passive radiators are more complicated to design than ported speakers. Polyfill is used in some designs, not fiberglass insulation, the polyfill is used not for dampening but to make the cabinet seem bigger than it really is. Sometimes weights are used on the passive radiator also.

Polyfill stuffing for stuffed toys.

VMPS subs with passive radiators were empty..

Hi, thank you for quick response. Usually I cover inner panels of speakers using 10mm felt, it work good to absorb reflection but because the principle operation of the passive radiator is based on the air pressure produced by the woofer. If I understand correctly, if all the internal sides of the speaker are covered with sound-absorbing material, then this reduces the air pressure on the passive radiator and reduces the efficiency of its operation. Please answer if I am  wrong and what you recommend that should be done to reduce the loss of air pressure.

Do not use sound absorbing materials inside the entire cabinet, use black hole 5 or no rez behind the active woofer, just a small strip as a little goes a long way.

Check my enclosures, shown here, 9th photo, back off, innards shown:

 

Polyfill, be careful of staples, get them straight, hammer them in if needed.

Prior enclosure, on 8" legs, woofer facing down, I had a buzz once, it was a loose staple on the woofers cone 

Now, shorter base, woofer facing front, slightly tilted back (to aim tweeters at seated ear height and time alignment if you believe in that).

No special bracing in that big box. I put lots of Donna's pricey beloved objects on the slightly slanted top, they don't vibrate or move. Very very slight sensation if holding hand on their side.

Cabinet has a rear port, used in prior room 'no wall behind' location. Port closed for this location with wall behind.