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Coughing-up Tweed
Jun 12, 2006

Audiot posted:

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for hearing protection, and I'm pretty religious about wearing plugs (custom molds :smug:) or a noise reducing headset for concerts. I'm not willing to drive around with shotgun plugs in though.

Back on topic...

Any thoughts on speaker doping? It's probably not with the spirit of the thread, but I have heard differences after someone painted some secret glue onto their speaker cones. At the same time a set of drivers were made to sound worse by some other glue mixture. I guess this has to do with DIY and experimentation, but I don't like the idea of ruining my gear in order to have the chance that it might sound a little better. Diminishing returns, I guess.

Undoped speakers will resonate weirdly at certain frequencies. It can be cool sounding for guitar amps when you're slamming the poo poo out of an undoped speaker and it's howling these weird harmonics along with you, but for audiphile listening I doubt that is a desirable quality. Too much doping will alter the transient response of a speaker, making it less sensitive and less "punchy", for lack of a better word.

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