Stumbled upon a company with products for everything from room construction to transportation to machinery in regards to sound isolation and treatment called Quiet Solution. Under the Construction and Building Sector section, they have a few core products, Quiet Rock (Drywall), Quietwood, QuietGlue, QuietTile, QuietSeal, and QuietCoat.
The one that interested me was QuietWood. Its obviously meant for new construction, whether it be walls, floors, roofs, etc. But I am curious if it would be a good application for audio shelving, speaker cabinet construction, or possibly using it, whether on its own, or layered with other dampening material on it, or sandwiched with other materials (sonex, etc) for room treatment. Could be stand-up panels, on walls, whatever...
My primary interest was possibly room treatment type panels combined with other materials, cut in whatever shapes made sense, and secondly if it might be a good choice for speaker cabinets. I was thinking of maybe toying with their strongest model of QuietWood, the QuietWood Solitude (QW-64), and creating an open baffle speaker utilizing it.
It comes in 4' x 8' panels, and the STC rating is 58-68. This doesn't mean much to me, but maybe to others here. There's lots of data sheets, etc on the site.
They have three lines for QuietWood -- Relief, Serenity, and Solitude, with huge differences. The cheapest is Relief, which has is 1-5/16" thick, and a panel weighs 130lbs. Serenity is a this lightweight model that is only 5/8" thick and weighs 65lbs.
Then there is Solitude which is 1-7/16" thick and the panel weighs 170 lbs (!).
They also offer QuietCoat which you layer on metals, etc,.
Certainly sounds like it would have its place in room construction for home theatre, audio room, studio's, etc, but I'm curious what other people's thoughts on regarding this stuff, positive or negative, based on the material on the website.
http://www.quietsolution.com/index.htmlhttp://www.quietsolution.com/quietwood.html
