When an enclosure is close-fitting, the panel resonance frequencies will be somewhat
increased due to the stiffening of the panel by the enclosed air volume. Thus an enclosure
designed to be massive with a low resonance frequency may not perform as well as expected
when it is close-fitting. Furthermore, system resonances will occur at higher frequencies; some
of these modes of vibration will be good radiators of sound, producing low noise reductions, and
some will be poor radiators, little affecting the noise reduction. The magnitude of the decrease
in noise reduction caused by these resonances may be controlled to some extent by increasing
the mechanical damping of the wall. Thus, if low-frequency sound (less than 200 Hz) is to be
attenuated, the close-fitting enclosure should be stiff and well damped, but if high-frequency
sound is to be attenuated the enclosure should be heavy and highly absorptive but not stiff.