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I have treated a whole floor with dampener and luxury liner pro. Reinstalling the seats was about the hardest thing, but was not impossible. At worst you will have to shave away the foam right at the seat mounts. Are you attempting to stop road noise, engine noise, or panel vibration? I have a hard time believing that car has much road noise or panel resonation, but would believe the engine noise. I could be wrong, but that is subjective opinion. As there will always be noisier and quieter cars. Please tell me you're not falling for some marketing pitch like "as quiet as a coffin". Because that is not possible, but lowering particular audible sounds is. So if you really want everybody's help I would suggest narrowing in on the what particular noises you are attempting to lower!

Btw, it is not conventional to show damping across all frequencies as no structure resonates across all frequencies in a way that makes it measureable, but if you claim it works just as well as CLD then you should actually show what it is doing mechanically or at least use a self generating structure with a calibrated forcing function. Real units would be expected as well. Measurements of both structures before and after as well. It is REALLY easy to screw this test up and draw false conclusions. The loss function you show is also a misnomer as the word loss implies transmission/absorbance and not damping. Pretty unrelated; however, I can only imply what a scientist would from seeing the plots as there is no text describing the experiment actually done. I can tell though that it was done by someone who didn't understand the ramifications or results that they were testing.

Do you understanding dampening at all? Yikes to the irrelevant "data" and videos. Your statement was that it was as good as CLD, show us...not that it is better than an untreated cymbal, lol. I thought you were a huge improvement to the Ant idiot, please don't disappoint us. Btw, I am not the one with an opinion, I measure structural resonances for a living.

Little sad about Chris Cornell.

A simple answer for you would be measure/check the gauge/size of the power wire to the factory amp. From this you can denote the largest aftermarket amp you can run without swapping/replacing wires. That would limit you to whatever size power wire is factory. The other direction to go about it would be to pick the aftermarket amp and then match the wire accordingly, which is what most the guys here would do.

Dude, we're just trying to help. Ain't got to be such a tool. In almost every upgrade application, you will need to run power cables and fusing for aftermarket Amplifier application. Btw, I knew that the F150 forum wouldn't be what you was needing (I drive a F150 supercrew) but wording it on the fly must not have came out as intended. My bad. Again, good luck with your search.

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The real question is what signal is going to the stock amps. Most are highly doctored signals to deal with the fact they are using cheap OEM amplifiers and drivers. If this is the case you really can't just use the stock wiring and swap anything out. Could be even worse if it is using a CAN bus to the amp in that case there is no signal you have that you can use. As a first test you could pull the wires off the sub and send a bunch of test signals through the sub. If they all have the same amplitude you would at least then have a high level signal you could put into a LOC to add an amplifier and sub/s. Since you are budget constrained it would be good to understand what the budget might be as it could greatly change what you could do.

Still waiting on pods to be wrapped, small amount of progress:

That is frequency response chart, not a damping chart...to make matters worse the units are ridiculous. To be a good dampener it has to dampen, which is what you should measure. Again, I didn't say it had no use, but it isn't a good replacement for CLD. Don't try to force a different discussion,we were talking about the effectiveness of CLD vs Spectrum. Not some arbitrary unitless frequency response function.

Also sir, if it is so useless you may want to talk to the forum owners you admin for and tell them they shouldn't sell the product on the website any more SSA Spectrum Listing

Spectrum will perform just as well as any CLD sheet on the market when built up to 3mm (2-3 coats) There is not much over spray, it shoots where you point it and is too heavy to float around the area to drift off onto anything else. Spectrum can also be brushed, rolled, or sprayed...Sludge can only be put on with a gloved hand or trowel and is meant for small spaces, nooks, and corners. The 30 sqft you have in the post will most likely cover the floor only, if you want to cover the doors and walls, you will need to add about 15 more sqft. I would also recomend using Luxury Liner Pro instead of LL+CCF as it is less gluing, less cutting, and Luxury Liner Pro performs better then the 2 products seperately as the CCF on the Luxury Liner Pro is much more dense then the Over Kill Pro. Use SAVE10SS at checkout and save yourself 10% off your order. Good luck with your build, here is a video of Spectrum being sprayed inside of a shop with 10's of thousnads of dollars worth of builds in the back ground, there is very little over spray: Spectrum Video

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Thoughts on this crossover design for evil mid and tweeter, both are 8ohms. Bookshelf speaker build. 2nd Order Linkwitz-Riley2500 Hertz8 Ohm Tweeter / 8 Ohm Woofer Parts List Capacitors C1 = 3.98 uF C2 = 3.98 uF Inductors L1 = 1.02 mH L2 = 1.02 mH

As a dampener spectrum is pretty useless. It has other purposes but sucks donkey as a cld replacement.

Spectrum is a waste of money. CLD you don't need all that much. MLV you have to cover the whole surface. If you have one quarter the CLD you have MLV you'll be fine assuming you are using both on all surfaces.

Then the Empire showed up!

Finally had time to cut the winter oxidation off the 4runner.

Had a busy week it seems Aaron. Excited to see the new product roll in!

Is the testing data sheet not visible to you above? It is also located on the product page, just go to the link your forum website has it listed under and check it out yourself. I'll wait here for your proof that it doesn't work. We would love to hear from just one person that has used it and not had amazing results. M5 are you really suggesting that SSA lists and sells its forum members products that are known to "not work" ? SSA has sold Spectrum for over a decade without any complaints.

Do you have any real world data to support this statement? Spectrum has been used in vehicles that are hitting 150 DB plus and almost every customer who uses it has had great results. We also have a huge elevator company that uses it on every elevator they build because it kills the vibration noise so well and is so easy to apply. Spectrum will kill vibration waves and structure borne noises as well as any CLD on the market when applied in the proper thickness.

Cymbal Demo Without Db Meter Showing Cymbal Demo With Db Meter Showing This test is not scientific but clearly shows that Spectrum deadens just fine. There is about 18 Db difference in peak noise from the 87 Db non treated Cymbal to the 70 Db treated cymbal. But I am sure you will say I didn't hit the other one as hard or some other Bill Nye type diagnosis. But I am still sitting here waiting for you to show one slice of evidence that Spectrum itself is "useless" as you stated. But all you have is your opinion, which you are free to have, the other forum members will have to decide to take your biased opinion over 17 years of satisfied customers and dealers (just like SSA who sells this product on their website successfully for years). PS Next time you are inside of an elevator look at the tag and see if it is a Wright Elevator, if it is you should be able to hear all the horrible structure borne noises, because like you said Spectrum is useless. I've been inside of them, they are dead quiet. Please bring just one unsatisfied customer to our attention sir. Until then, your words are 100% opinion, backed by zero facts.