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Cdc,
Very interesting. I remember a fellow writing in Audio Amateur some years back about gluing felt strips on the face of a cone driver with the idea of breaking up standing waves and how well he thought that worked. If I decide to EnABL my drivers I will use the AVM acoustic paint instead of the paint sold in the kit. Tom

Hi Tom,
One guy used toothpaste on his Jordan's as a reversible experiment. Someone else used Post-It's!

[url=http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1163808913&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending]diy audio[/url]also has foam triangles you stick on the back of the driver. Called Mamboni process or something close to that.

[url=http://www.hawthorneaudio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1429&p=20995&hilit=enabl]hawthorne audio[/url]has detailed info on applying EnABL by Budp Nov 29-30,2007.

I don't know why the links look so funny but they work.

Well, after purchasing a Wheeler Fat Wrench, which is a real piece of junk...the hex adapter doesn't fit properly so the thing wobbles while you're tightening the screws...

...and after being unable to find brass bolts to fit my Dynaudio drivers...

...and after being unable to find a 3mm hex driver attachment for the Fat Wrench...

...I'm abandoning this tweak.

I was able to uniformly tighten 48 out of 52 screws on my speakers (the other four had slightly stripped heads), and I didn't notice any difference afterward.

Moving on!

Tvad,

I kept waiting for you to say the wrench lost grip of the hex driver, slipped and went through a woofer. A real relief to read you lost only time and not parts.

This is the same outcome as my test. I admit I did not even look for brass screws, although that is probably the valuable part of the tweak.

I could not find brass screws which were a close match. I did tighten the screws on my TAD 805SD a couple inlbs. They still sound great, especially for the price, but nothing startling to report here either.