Rope Caulking Works!

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Brac ,

I was simply illustrating in the smearing to some klipsch speakers that are being sealed off in the main cabinet by a thin plastic horn sharing the air volume internally, however as for the external plastic K-horns, well thats another story.. The old Metal K-horns could be better damped maybe, I have not heard it so I can't comment. New plastic K-horns, probably not that beneficial, but this all comes down to the cabinet design of the different klipsch speakers in my opinion.. I mean any that have cheap plastic horn bodys being inside the cabinet absorbing the backwaves etc... directly from the woofers might be worth damping is all I am saying.But then again ANY vibration control period even with horns just sitting on top of a very high power cabinet in a corner like K horns maybe could be benefitting from horn damping..

To directly soften the tone of horns I have in the past taken Felt Triangles and applied them to the actual surface which the compression driver fires into with good tamming results as well, but regular damping would not be a good application there, some soft felt might be if your just trying to do like a diffraction lens type thing and smooth them out from Glaring off the hard surface.

Actually interesting thing is disconnect your horn and let the woofer play, if its more amplied and adding color by putting your ear by the horn than obviously it is picking up some of the harmonics and amplifying them more than the deader wood cabinet..