Snowman's Kick Panel Page Welcome to the wonderful world of speaker kick panels. There are two major ways of building custom kick panels. Both of them work extremely well, and will improve the quality of your acoustical experience.
Lets begin with the simple one.
You will need two pieces of MDF that are approximately one foot by one foot, a piece of cardboard one foot by one foot in size, a jigsaw or a bandsaw, a drill, carpet that matches you interior, carpet adhesive, six pieces of thick sheet metal or six angle brackets, six half inch self tapping metal screws, six half inch drywall screws, and some time to kill. Now it is time to begin. You need to decide if your kick panel will cover over the existing plastic panel or if your new kick panel will take it place. This decision will depend on how much room the existing panel leaves for speaker clearance and on how difficult it would be to make the flat piece of MDF contour to the area near the door opening. Now it's time to make the template for the wood panels.