Oharchie, It does not mater where it goes as long as it is not touching a moving cone. The fill effectively increases the size of the enclosure or lowers the "Q" You want to fill the enclosure without packing in the fill or in other words it should loosely fill the enclosure. I paint the inside of the enclosure with contact cement which keeps the fill from shifting. Over years the fill will compress due to its own weight. The contact cement will also keep this from happening. The best fill is cotton batting. Some manufacturers used fiberglass insulation. There is now synthetic stuff that you can get from Parts Express.
Polyfill placement question in monitor speakers.
I have a pair of Acoustic Energy AE-2 speakers that I am refurbishing. I had to remove the poly-fill batting while working on them and never thought to make note of where the poly-fill was originally placed. Now I have to put it back in.
I am wondering if there is a most beneficial area to place the poly-fill. Behind the mids? Around the ports? Pack the tweeter area? Really have no memory of where it was before.
These speakers have 2 mid drivers one tweeter and 3 ports. I am only putting back in what came out. There is not a ton of it so it does not fill the entire space. In fact I'd say there was only about as much to fill 1/4-1/3 of the volume.
These are excellently designed monitors and I'd like to have the damping working as designed.
I am wondering if there is a most beneficial area to place the poly-fill. Behind the mids? Around the ports? Pack the tweeter area? Really have no memory of where it was before.
These speakers have 2 mid drivers one tweeter and 3 ports. I am only putting back in what came out. There is not a ton of it so it does not fill the entire space. In fact I'd say there was only about as much to fill 1/4-1/3 of the volume.
These are excellently designed monitors and I'd like to have the damping working as designed.
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