Anyone Damp the insides of your Speaker Cabinets?

Correct term is "damping". Damping reduces resonances, dampening wets something. I'm pretty sure you'd never want to wet the insides of your speakers...

-RW-

Uh, I feel stupid...lol.

Thank you RW for nipping that in the butt for me ;-)

There's damping of a speaker's interior, like adding wool or fiberglass insulation. If judiciously done it really helps a speaker resolve itself and avoid ringing. If overdone it is readily audible as a lack of micro dynamics.

There's damping of a spekers internal cabinet walls to reduce cabinet vibrations, generally using Dynamat or automobile door daming materials. This can make much sense overall, but there's no replacement for a sturdy, thick, well braced cabinet to starty out with.

Then there's Black Hole 5, which effectively damps the cabinet walls while making the interior of the cabinet seem larger to the speaker, enhancing bass and mid-bass characteristics. However this too can be overdone.

Any or all of these might require an adjustment to the crossover to compensate for the different Q you will achieve, perhaps as easy as altering the tweeter resistor value, but it could need more tweaking. No way to know for sure unless you try it and listen.

If you want to add material to suppress vibration one of the better materials to use is polyester batting.

It comes in different thicknesses and can be found on the web or at a local haberdasher.

It will hold it's shape and thickness compared to other materials.

Google fatt batt :-)

I own a pair of Allison CD8s. I have always liked the way they sounded. I read in an issue of Audio Basics Magazine about applying plasticine to the interior of the speaker housing and to the speaker frames. I figured 'why not' if I didn't like the results, it was easy enough to remove. I am pleased with the results as I notice an improvement in the bass response....the bass had been tightened up a bit. I have since left it in the speakers.