ALL NEW ONLINE STORE: The Sound Deadening Shop, by CAD

Once upon a time, I called McLaren cars as I wanted desperately to sit in the only centre seat in motoring and hear the specially developed light weight Kenwood stereo system. They all but hung up on me. Then, I called Kenwood and asked them if they would help me sort it out. One call and I was invited for the day, including lunch and a tour around the production line of the carbon fibre bodied McLaren F1.
There was a lad slowly and painstakingly sticking gold leaf into the inside of the engine bay of a car on the line and here and there were small pieces of the most sophisticated Dynamat sound deadening material. I called up the then distributors and discovered that yes, they would have loved to have bragged about being used by McLaren but it would have cost them a telephone number to be able to say so!
For sound deadening is vital to all cars and all cars have it. Cars made pleasurable with extra special sound systems in them need far better treatment than normal cars and if done aright, when you close the door, ANY car can be made to behave like a Bentley and deliver you ‘Splendid Isolation’ in that you shut the door and the world simply goes away. KerchuMM – silence!
But there are many kinds and different needs and locations in cars and a LOT of different products on the market, from the top end Dynamat stuff to more cheaply priced bulkier items that are fitted to bass vans rather than weight-conscious super cars.
And you can get sprays, goops, mats, tinfoil lined mats and stuff for going in industrial spray thingies. It can get confusing, so it is great to learn that the top chaps behind the IT that runs top quality e-retailer site Car Audio Direct has a new sister in the family. Simply titled link it is a no-brainer one-stop shop site for EVERYTHING to do with that most cost-effective of audio upgrades, which is to stop wasting watts shaking metal panels and use ALL of them just for music.
The choice is wide, the prices keen and the advice as copious as you wish.