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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #20 on: 19 November 2011, 23:26 »
Sling those JL audio subs in and some of that fat genesis amplification etc and all you'll hear is sweet sounds - I keep promising to fit some of my tackle but I think I'm a little too old for all that now :grin:

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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #21 on: 19 November 2011, 23:39 »
Sling those JL audio subs in and some of that fat genesis amplification etc and all you'll hear is sweet sounds - I keep promising to fit some of my tackle but I think I'm a little too old for all that now :grin:

I am thoroughly ashamed of you. How could you keep listening to what is such low-fi? :shocked:
Get some decent vibrations from your woofer and tweeter or I'll beat you up. :grin:
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #22 on: 19 November 2011, 23:41 »
Between us we've got enough quality car hifi to sink a battleship  :grin:

It's just hard work when it takes up half your boot etc  :undecided:

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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #23 on: 19 November 2011, 23:46 »
Between us we've got enough quality car hifi to sink a battleship  :grin:

It's just hard work when it takes up half your boot etc  :undecided:

Forget the dicky, do the doors and woof under the passenger seat.
I know it's a bit OTT with those fabulous Genisis amps. Oooooh, such pleasure to be so musical!
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #24 on: 20 November 2011, 00:17 »
Sling those JL audio subs in and some of that fat genesis amplification etc and all you'll hear is sweet sounds - I keep promising to fit some of my tackle but I think I'm a little too old for all that now :grin:


You know the score Craig if I fill my boot with hifi where would I put all the dead bikers?
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How are speed bumps legal?
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #25 on: 20 November 2011, 10:10 »
As someone whos been into top end sound quality ice since the 80s (also a member of talkaudio for toooo many years and moderate a forum of the world champ) i know what you meen about the road noise.
Dynamat is not strickly speaking a sound dampener its a resonator reduction device. It basically adds mass so changing the resonance frequency of the panel reducing the noise that way.
Its good to RTA(real time analyse) the frequencys that are the issue and then try and find them using the mike.
The 3 door suffers more because the sound comes in from the rear quarters.
VW use to, but don't know if they still do, fit a foam in a plastic bag over the rear arches on 90s polos i used these on an ibiza i had which helped a large amount. Nothing stopping you making your own out of closed cell foam.
You want sound absorbsion not resonance reduction so you want some closed cell foam for the arches floors and boot floor.
A couple of things i found that helped a very small amount was fitting the TT back bottom arm cover but it was such a small amount but makes a difference when its raining.
Another thing that helped a tiny amount was my rear wheel arch inner covers i resealed with more water repelent, so behind them inside the arches stay totally dry. I know a trick some car manufactureres do to the press fleets is fill this void with closed cell foam reducing road noise. :wink:
Also try altering the tyre pressures i found using 36psi the same as what the mk5 used.
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #26 on: 20 November 2011, 10:36 »
You want sound absorbsion not resonance reduction so you want some closed cell foam for the arches floors and boot floor.

Known but were going for belts and braces as the panels sound crap when you thump em, we're putting this everywhere: http://www.efoam.co.uk/Segg.php

We don't have an RTA to hand to be fair.

Tyres pressure has been done.

Can you find me a Pioneer ODR system as I've been looking for one for years for an old smoker I have?

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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #27 on: 20 November 2011, 10:50 »
Cool, I'm going down the route of copying what's on/in the gtd as that's fine, but also I've ordered:

eBay

200660047330 dynamat for rear quarter panels and front wheel arches.

230704089736 foam for rear quarters

260892835200  dense foam for fire wall and and footwells

And more 300612741776 sticky backed dense foam for the rear side of rear quarter trim panels.

Oh and an s3 under tray as its stupid it's not there from the off.

And thats all the money I'm willing to spend on this.
« Last Edit: 20 November 2011, 10:55 by Will@carbon »
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #28 on: 20 November 2011, 10:58 »
Can you find me a Pioneer ODR system as I've been looking for one for years for an old smoker I have?
Are you wanting the old ODR from the 90s or the newer versions that have been going for the past 5 years or so?
Talkaudio.co.uk/vbb classified forum is a good place to start or post a wanted on there and someone will probably have something hidden away as theres a load of horders on there.
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Re: SOUND PROOFING the stupidly loud road noise of the golf.
« Reply #29 on: 20 November 2011, 11:03 »
The original 90's version of course  :wink: