Sound Dampening the Doors

I started installing sound dampening last weekend and continued yesterday. After doing a bunch of research I decided to go with RAAM Audio’s RAAMmat BXT and Ensolite closed cell foam. It’s been pretty messy but it’s making a big improvement. I’ve done both passenger side doors so far and will be reinstalling the front passenger side speaker today and hope to see improvement is sound.

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2 thoughts on “Sound Dampening the Doors

  1. DoctorJay Post author

    @Z: I ended up spending about $130 in materials, but haven’t worked on it since doing the 3 doors. Once it got to be winter it’s not good to do because of the cold: the adhesive doesn’t stick as well. I never got around to it this summer, but I still have 1/2 the stuff left.

    That being said, it’s a great improvement in sound. I have both front doors done. They have RAAM mat on the outer shell, then a layer of foam, then another layer of RAAMmat on the inner shell, and then I applied the closed cell foam to the door panel. I installed the speakers by first screwing wood to the doors, then mounting the speakers on the wood.

    It gives much better clarity to the sound, and I don’t have to turn the volume up so high to compensate for the sound lost in the doors. The 5 1/4 don’t give great bass response, but that’s to be expected. Next steps are the 4th door, and the floor. And that damn noisy trunk lid!

    One of these days I should post pics.

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