what if you put too much lead shot in your speaker

mbolddal, my ProAc`s uses dry silver sand instead of lead shot. But I think it does the same thing. Here is what proAc says, "a small amount of sand will give the bass more warmth, adding more sand to the cavity will give a dryer tighter quality, most people will find that a half to two thirds full is optimum in most models".
If you still have your owners manual check it out for your speakers.
Hope this helps,Jim

Lead shot in speakers designed to have lead shot in them sound much better with it. The purpose is not a design flaw but in order to save shipping cost and keep a lower price point. It makes perfect sense to me and it stabilizes the speaker nicely. It tightens up the sound without a doubt.

Rob

In order to be clear and fair, we should distinguish between 'different' and 'better'. Lead was my holy grail for all things vibrational in terms of audio, until I saw the results first hand, from a completely, and I should say more open perspective.
I have speakers that have a 'lead chamber' at the bottom, and I used it for that purpose. The dynamics died (Don McLean's, The Day the Music Died") Everything exciting about music, dynamic contrasting, natural decay, all went away. We put the speakers on some spikes (Sistrum, and no I do not know the owners of the company, and have NO VESTED INTEREST HERE) under them, and it was disgusting to hear the difference. Different is not better, and better is not different, oh they may be coincidental, but not in this instance.
The spikes left the speakers 'singing' and doing the same things that all great products can do, and the lead, literally killed that sense of effortlessness.
Beware of the lead fix. As a former devotee of that, I am now cured, because I witnessed it first hand.
Best,
Larry

That's interesting Larry. I would consider that a poor design then. I've only had the VS VR4jr s and they sounded much better after installing the lead shot. It helped to keep the cabinet from vibrating. But of course with other speakers YMMV.

Rob