... sound batting and/or weighting speakers ...


Hello to all... 

Need some thoughts and/or suggestions: I am using a pair of KEF Q1s - luv the sound, so much more full than I ever expected - and the driver has such cone extension that the speaker box really vibrates. Now - I am assuming that the vibration really = the possibility of distortion ( or a smearing at higher volumes, tonal deformity, if that is different) and I am wondering if this is more controllable by:
Adding more sound batting into the enclosure (thru the bass port)
Weighting the speakers with a bag of lead shot (?) over the top of the driver/cabinet box ( the cabinet is not flat on top, so I can't use a brick or solid weight; I'm guessing the weight should be something moldable, so the lead shot in a bag is possible if I can figure a way to affix it to the cabinet...)

Thoughts? Suggestions? Alternates?
insearchofprat

Showing 1 response by hshifi

Hello,
I like MilerC’s idea of the bluetac. Many times for computer speakers I have done this or added a cut mouse pad and put it under the speaker to clean up the sound.     You can take a sandwich bag and fill with sand, shot, or copper BB’s and open up the speaker and put the full bag on the Inside bottom of the speaker. You would have to do this through the plate on the back or the driver on the front.     Last you can put a piece of cut foam in the port to make a more sealed enclosure, but I am not a big fan because you are changing the frequency of the speaker and you will lose bass. You can try this by putting a sock in the bass port and see if you like this sound. If you do you can then go get foam and make it look better later.