A comment on speaker interior stuffing...

Unlike the late RD, who was in my opinion now unjustly suspicious of EVERYBODY'S motives in audio design, I'm inclined to trust experienced designers when it comes to products and now my hearing is past what I thought was its best, I need to know how good technically it is before even considering it as ears alone for me don't work, if ever they did (looking back at some of the stuff I've owned).

Anyway, the chat about internal stuffing came up. My Spendors and Harbeths have damping pads on the carcass walls and a layer of chosen 'acoustic' foam on top, leaving an empty void within. Other speakers have graded wooly stuff inside (my ATC's had this latter, held in place with netting) and the LS5/9's I had for some years (mostly in storage) used damping on the walls plus slabs of what looked like reformed packing articulated? foam granules (I can't explain it but you could get sheets of the stuff all multicoloured) which were cut and wrapped in clear 'bags' and then pressed into place (I have pics but can't post these directly).

Here's one example of it being done by thought, research, design and apparently listening as well, so hopefully properly The newish Wharfedale Dovedale. No idea what the completed confection 'sounds like' but Peter Comeau knows what he's doing I think and I'm sure they'd be great for five grand or so (similar price to the latest version of my Harbeths). No buy-wiring option but the crossovers are split into two which I find intriguing...