by MisterTedster » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:01 pm
^ I lined the area around the speaker hole with sound deadening. The flanges of the speaker baffle went over that, and then I used the stock speaker mounts, with that little protective piece cut off. The foam on the stock speaker mounts were still in good shape so I kept them. As for the speaker baffle, I just used some generic plastic (not foam) baffles on ebay. I think they were the metras. Like I said, I cut out the bottom because the baffle is so small that it hurt my mid-bass (most drivers are designed for infinite baffle, ie. free air). However, I did line the insides of the baffle with more sound deadening on top of that. I feel the resulting mid bass you get just by doing that is almost, if not as good as, sound deadening the entire door. Once I get my new mids in I will be using clay to decouple the angled mdf rings I just got and lining the speaker all around with clay even further just to add some mass and reduce vibration. In this set-up I just made sure to screw in the speaker mount really well, as well as screw in the speaker to the mount really well, and I get no vibration whatsoever.
The extruded butyl rope is actually very useful for covering the big hole in our doors with plexiglass.
As a side note, I've decided to take my project to the next step and see if I can fabricate some custom tweeter pods out the sail panels and get the pointing absolutely perfect. Otherwise, I'll see if I can get some hinged tweeter mounts to just get the pointing right, and be done with it. I've racked my brain enough trying to get the perfect sound stage.
If I decide that my custom tweeter pods are good enough, I may just decide to start making them for other SG'ers who may be interested. Even customized down to specific tweeter mounts and where they want them to be pointed.
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