There is certainly some truth to Kenjit's posts on cabinets being a potential compromise. There are other materials that are by far superior, and generally to implement them correctly would cost substantially more. The resulting products would also weigh more, and cost more to ship as well.
Open baffle resolves some of the issues kenjit presents, and it also presents it's own set of problems as well, much of which can be tuned with equalization.
Replacing MDF for a more exotic material, or laminating other materials to reduce or rather as Focal states moves the energies into different frequencies is a real thing. However just because Focal hasn't found out how to do it, (I know they certainly haven't done it with MDF, please feel free to run a full white noise sweep through a pair of Focals to prove me wrong) doesn't mean nobody else hasn't or can't.
There's reasons cars are still mostly pressed steel, and not carbon fiber, aircraft grade aluminum, or some super rigid ultra light materials... The cost to produce exotic cars is far removed from the affordable family sedan.
Open baffle resolves some of the issues kenjit presents, and it also presents it's own set of problems as well, much of which can be tuned with equalization.
Replacing MDF for a more exotic material, or laminating other materials to reduce or rather as Focal states moves the energies into different frequencies is a real thing. However just because Focal hasn't found out how to do it, (I know they certainly haven't done it with MDF, please feel free to run a full white noise sweep through a pair of Focals to prove me wrong) doesn't mean nobody else hasn't or can't.
There's reasons cars are still mostly pressed steel, and not carbon fiber, aircraft grade aluminum, or some super rigid ultra light materials... The cost to produce exotic cars is far removed from the affordable family sedan.