DCC Impulses Column - 5
round and oval speakers to a flat surface, like a tender floor. Of
course, the speaker to be mounted must match their offerings.
These are laser-cut pieces of thin Mylar with adhesive on both
sides. The installation consists of peeling the backing off one
side and sticking it to the speaker. Peel the backing off the other
side and then stick the speaker where you want it.
Shimming a speaker into a shell
The techniques I’m now going to discuss are only ones that
I’ve used with speakers that have a rectangular or square
plastic frame.
Many of my installations revolve around having a speaker
mounted in the shell. Here is how you make the speaker wide
enough to fit into the shell easily. This can also be designed to
keep the speaker away from those nubs of plastic that I dis-
cussed in last month’s column.
