Lambswool?

Marbles · « **Reply #20 on:** 7 Apr 2004, 09:01 pm »

Quote from: Ric Schultz

Marbles,
Since I will be using a separate amp and equalizer (behringer) on the bass the cabinet dimensions are not as important. I will tying passive radiator, sealed and ported....whatever sounds best with my electronics/room. Both woofers will be in a cabinet about half the volume of the RM-40. Equalization works fine as long as you don't play too dang loud. If you want 120db monster stomps then you had better use a lot of woofer area. Two 10 inch woofers are fine equalized flat to about 20hz if you ...

Thanks Ric.

Best of luck.

Rocket · « **Reply #21 on:** 7 Apr 2004, 11:19 pm »

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has tried blackhole 5 as dampening in their speakers? any sonic improvements? it's not cheap.

I'm considering having a friend bring some into oz for me.

regards

rod

audiochef · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 Apr 2004, 07:09 am »

Please report on your findings.

JoshK · « **Reply #23 on:** 2 May 2004, 02:52 pm »

Just swapped out the stuffing in the mids for the wool last night. Unfortunately it was after 1am when I finished so I couldn't exactly crank the stereo to evaluate. I got up first thing this morning and had a listen. Funny thing about hearing and time, but I can't honestly say it is horribly noticeable. I would venture to say it is smoother in the upper midrange particularly the female voice. It is subtle enough that it makes me wonder whether it is pyschological effect or a real effect. I did listen to see if I can hear any downside, as I always evaluate tweaks for their shortcomings and never take a tweak for granted. I didn't hear any downside, so in the end I think I do indeed hear some smoothness in the upper midrange frequencies. All in all for what I paid for this tweak, which wasn't much, I am pretty happy.

Tito, if you want some of my extra wool to try out your monitors give me a buzz.

ekovalsky · « **Reply #24 on:** 2 May 2004, 03:42 pm »

Josh, my observations after a month parallel yours.

I have extra wool too, enough for a pair of RM/X or RM-40...

JoshK · « **Reply #25 on:** 2 May 2004, 04:49 pm »

I do have to say that I don't listen at blasting levels so this could account for some of the subtleness.

JoshK · « **Reply #26 on:** 26 Jun 2004, 11:48 pm »

Has anyone noticed static-y sound coming from the midrange panels? I am hearing horrible amounts of static pops and stuff coming from the mids. Sounds like a bad LP.

I upgraded my midpanels and did the wool swap at the same time, so I am trying to figure out the culprit. Wool does get staticy so it could be this. Right now things sound pretty horrible, and I am hoping it is just a wool thing.

Marbles · « **Reply #27 on:** 26 Jun 2004, 11:59 pm »

I doubt it's the wool.

Double check your cable connections. Is it coming from both speakers, or just one?

JoshK · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 12:01 am »

Both....I am 5-9's sure that it isn't the wiring.

Marbles · « **Reply #29 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 12:05 am »

If it were me, I would try a different set of speakers to see if it was them or an upstream component..

JoshK · « **Reply #30 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 12:07 am »

I will try, indeed, but there were no changes in upstream components, only these two changes.

zybar · « **Reply #31 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 01:52 am »

Josh,

No static here.

George

JoshK · « **Reply #32 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 03:21 am »

Think it is my CD player actually. Got to do a few more tests.

Corbin Johnson · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 05:37 pm »

Does anyone still have some lambswool they want to sell? If not, please tell me where I can purchase some. I'm going to upgrade the stock caps to auricaps in my RM40's in about 2 weeks, so I figure this is the opportunity to also do the lamswool tweak.

Thanks,

Corbin

zybar · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 05:42 pm »

madisound.com

$9.99/lb

I used a little over a 1lb in each RM 40.

George

John Casler · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Jun 2004, 07:45 pm »

Personally I find the more expensive "black sheep wool" puts more "blackness" between instruments and vocals

I heard there are "three bags full" on E-bay.....

I couldn't resist

Corbin Johnson · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Jun 2004, 07:14 pm »

Zybar,

Thanks for the info. Ekovalsky offered to send me his left over wool. I'll post my impressions of both the upgraded auricaps and lambswool in a few weeks, although I don't know how I'll tell which change is making what difference.

Thanks Eric,

Corbin

ctviggen · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Jun 2004, 07:58 pm »

The only way is to do one thing at a time. So, wait to do the wool until later. I do this all the time -- I'll change two or even three things and can't figure out what's going on.

Corbin Johnson · « **Reply #38 on:** 31 Aug 2004, 04:51 pm »

I finally installed the two pounds of lambswool in my RM40s. I think I needed 3 or 4 pounds for maximum stuffing, so I left some of the fiberglass in place so the lambswool would be a tightly packed fit.

My initial impression was no difference in sound. Upon further lisetning, maybe I'm hearing a little better imaging, but I only trust my initial impression as I tend to imagine things if they're not readily apparent.

Tweak Summary:

Cost of Tweak = $25.00
Time of Tweek = 30 minutes
Impression of Tweek = marginal, but no negatives
Knowing that I've got all the tweaks others have = priceless

Corbin