identifying acoustic panels

craschowder · 15th September 2009

So I picked up 5 large acoustic panels today from...get this....goodwill. I saw these things and I thought, score! those must have come from a studio. Very well built. Wooden frames, thick insulation covered in thin meterial inside, covered on the front with a thick black cloth. Nothing else they could be. I need em, so I grabbed them all for $40.

I would like to at verify the materiel inside these if possible. Like is it 703 or whatever else? I don't want to take them apart yet so I'll describe what the stuff feels like and maybe that'll be enough to tell.

When I press on the insulation from the back it feels like tight/compressed slightly crunchy materiel. As in not cotton. Could this be rigid fiberglass? It is completely sealed in a materiel so I cannot see it. The texture it probably not enough to tell but I figured I'd ask before I took em apart as I don't have a stapler.

Any help is awesome! thanks!

Glenn Kuras · 16th September 2009

If you can cut a small hole in one of them. I will say that the crunchy word does sound like rigid fiberglass

Weasel9992 · 16th September 2009

Sounds like a good find? Pics?

Frank

15th September 2009	#1
craschowder Gear maniac Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 188 Thread Starter	identifying acoustic panels So I picked up 5 large acoustic panels today from...get this....goodwill. I saw these things and I thought, score! those must have come from a studio. Very well built. Wooden frames, thick insulation covered in thin meterial inside, covered on the front with a thick black cloth. Nothing else they could be. I need em, so I grabbed them all for $40. I would like to at verify the materiel inside these if possible. Like is it 703 or whatever else? I don't want to take them apart yet so I'll describe what the stuff feels like and maybe that'll be enough to tell. When I press on the insulation from the back it feels like tight/compressed slightly crunchy materiel. As in not cotton. Could this be rigid fiberglass? It is completely sealed in a materiel so I cannot see it. The texture it probably not enough to tell but I figured I'd ask before I took em apart as I don't have a stapler. Any help is awesome! thanks!

16th September 2009	#2
Glenn Kuras Gear Guru Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 11,995	If you can cut a small hole in one of them. I will say that the crunchy word does sound like rigid fiberglass __________________ Glenn Kuras GIK Acoustics USA GIK Acoustics Europe 770 986 2789 (USA) +44 (0) 20 7558 8976 (UK) See the NEW Scopus Tuned Trap

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