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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range
Post Subject: Re: damp it all!Posted by hagtech on: 6/11/2006
I was going to ask you about that funny looking damping material.  Then you explained it at bottom of post.  Very clever to use mouse pads!  Lately I've been using cork & buna rubber sheets from McMaster-Carr.  Seems to work much better on chassis then the regular spongey rubber.  I suppose it all depends on application.  For feet I still use sorbothane.

Question, do you put anything on the inside of the chassis?  I find it sort of works like tube dampers.  Strips of adhesive backed rubber (or the cork stuff) along the inside rims help to remove any ping.  Like a loudspeaker or turntable, it's a compromise between too much liveliness and overdamped and dead.

One more thing, try remove the shit steel screws from the power transformers and replace them with stainless steel or brass.

jh

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