Hi alls, UPDATE: the foam in my pictures are not set correctly, good way to install them is as on Beobuddy pictures or the third drawing some post below, in the center of the speaker, around the woofers. Apologies. Sorry for the catchy title but better ask god than its saints. Nevertheless any comment is of course welcome. Today I replaced the damping foams in a Beolab 8000. First thing that hits me was that the replacement kit isn't a piece for piece set. The main difference is that the upper part now consist in vertical pieces along the aluminium pipe and two horizontal pieces, one around the bass port tube and the other above the tweeter, where before there was just a gasket from amplifier board to top plate around the pipe but without any horizontal separation. I vaguely remember an answer from Geoff once, I can't remember the precise topic but it was something like "the problem is the speed of the air in the bass port tube…". Sorry for being imprecise but its just from memory. Still, that was something that made me think "whoa, this things are more complicated that you think…" So here is the question: with the new damping kit, isn't the bass port intake "sealed" by the V shaped piece that separates the speaker area from the bass port area ? Aren't the air movements altered in some way? And the "outrageous" question: With all the instances of Beolab 8000, are the kit you can order by now (3332084) adapted to any BL8000 whatever the period? For the record, when looking after this sets to buy, somebody (in the business) told me the foam are "useless" and they remove them each time they have 8000's to repair.