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While wool is an excellent acoustical dampening material, it is not effective for mechanical vibration dampening. A mass-loaded material such as bitumen, lead or even the blue tack is required for such a property as mechanical dampening of vibrations.
-Chris
Originally Posted by Rob80b Make sure you use REAL WOOL and not a polyester based material. Wool is the best for absorbing vibrations which is then dispersed as heat, (on a small scale of course.) Also I believe Pinkfloyd posted a thread quite awhile back on damping his K501's with bluetak. |
While wool is an excellent acoustical dampening material, it is not effective for mechanical vibration dampening. A mass-loaded material such as bitumen, lead or even the blue tack is required for such a property as mechanical dampening of vibrations.
-Chris