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Old 29th May 2009   #2
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Home Repo sez... "Not Available"... So I'll assume you linked to standard "pink fluffy" insulation or similar... If not, this might not apply...

Regular pink fluffy is about 0.8 lb/sq/ft. 703 is 3.0 lb/sq/ft.

So, to have the equivalent of 703, you'ld need to find a way to compress the pink fluffy stuff by a factor of 4.

4 x $3.50= $14.00 sq/ft in pink fluffy vs $8.00 sq/ft for 703 (which $8 sq/ft for 703 is waaaay too much)

Try SPI for 703 pricing.

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Just had an afterthought... yeah, I know... scary, huh???

If you make a superchunk style corner trap, you'ld play hell getting the pink fluffy compressed.

But, if you make a 703 cross corner trap, you can back fill the trap with the pink fluffy to add a bit more of a wider "Q" to the trap... thereby extending the absorption upwards in center frequency.
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