RE: Ceiling speaker backboxes

["Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a bloomin valid point! My ceilings are full of speaker holes! All
rockwooled luckily! Mind you Node '0' would seriously burn! :-(

Many thanks,

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Davey [mailto:DB1001@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 January 2005 16:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Ceiling speaker backboxes


and a third reason for boxing in a bloody great hole in the ceiling ( I'd
suggest PB and rockwool rather than kingspan/celotex) is of course to try
to
limit the ceiling structure as a route for the spread of fire from
below....

Lets be safe out there...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benfield, John (Penta)" <john.benfield-eds@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Ceiling speaker backboxes


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> When installing speakers into ceilings is it worth creating some kind
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> back box for them. I was thinking of this for two reasons, firstly I
guess
> that it could improve the sound coming out of the speaker by limiting
the
> amount of air space behind this speaker and secondly to try to reduce
the
> sound transmission to the room above. I was thinking about either
making
the
> boxes out of expanded sheet insulating material (such as Celotex) or a
> simple plasterboard box with some rockwool/fibreglass around it.
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> JB
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