would it be worth putting behind a set of focal V2 splits as opposed to brown bread sound deadening?

http://www.caraudioaustralia.com/forums/vi...pic.php?t=36463
might be of some help
its supposed to diffuse rear standing waves from a midrange/midbass speaker

It dependes. Sound deaden the rest of your doors then put plain chant behind the speaker. You'll get better results if you havnt sound deadend your doors at all if you do it this way.

i'd consider the addition of accoustic tiles like 'plain chant' to be one of those upgrades 'down the track' when all else has been tackled. don't expect big improvements from it alone, and it isn't great value (ie: fairly expensive).

but if your doors are well-deadened and sealed, you have optimally tuned your xovers/gains and levels, and still want some improvement in door-woofer performance...consider it.

having said that, if you have the luxury of choice, then some plain chant would be good directly behind the woofer instead of SDer (or both).

imagine trying to put focal plain chant throughout your whole car, like the boot and doors. farout that would cost a bit. i reckon it would cost at least $2000 to do so :shock: . you'd hope it sounded good after that though! :hehe:

I`m using Plain Chant also....but being my first install i haven`t got anything to compare it too. :!:

It was recommended to me by a well known award winning installer so i basically took his word.. & i paid $90 for a pack of 8 tiles

Cheers

How far do the 8 tiles go?

On my VR 3 tiles horizontilly directly behind the speaker...& the spare one vertically next to the others...

So 8 tiles will do both front doors

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yes, you would use a minimum of 2 behind each woofer, which will create a 'square' about 250x250mm (rough guess from what i can remember!).

There was definitely a difference and improvement in sound quality once I got my doors sound deadened with Dynamat Xtreme and Focal Plain Chant behind the drivers. Midbass response seemed to become reinforced and you'll find that your front stage drivers may appear to sound like they are going lower and louder.

I've got three behind each door woofer and another couple lining my subwoofer box. Any sound deadening is well worth the money in my book. I'd even rather spend the $100-odd dollars on Plain Chant than rear fill!

did you happen to do a comparison with the doors SDed but without the plain chant, THEN add the plain chant? that way you were comparing the same things except plain chant.

cos of course you'd expect a big difference going from stock doors to 'SD + plain chant'. that's big enough change for audible benefit.

i'm just not convinced in my own setup that the plain chant added anything on top of my well-deadened and sealed doors.

Nah, and I can see your point clearly, but after I did a little research on both sound deadening products and sound absorption pads, I came to my own conclusion that a combination of both would offer me the best midbass performance, especially as I could only fit 5.25-inch drivers in my doors.

As I said, one pack is all you need for the front doors and it can be had for around just over $100.

I would be very interested, however, to know if anyone has used Dynamat DynaXorb pads, which are new and are bigger square pads?

Also, shiny_car I think perhaps you are best placed to offer a comparison? You have well sealed and deadened doors already, so if you ever get the chance to grab a pack of either, have a go and let us know!

FYI, according to Focal....

Anyone compared this sort of stuff to the paint that you paint on with a brush I don't it can be any better or then the generic type sheet stuff you can get.