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cement speakers
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Why are there so many wooden speakers?
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MDF isn't exactly "wood". It is an engineered wood product. AFAIK, violins and other string instruments continue to be made (exclusively?) with "real" wood such as maple. But which if any company offers HiFi speakers with "real" wood cabinets? There'd be serious issues not only with raw material costs but even more with labor costs and quality control. How would you even make a large box dense and stiff enough for the application, yet still allow for wood movement so it does not crack? Traditional cabinet boxes typically are made with panels that float in a face frame. IIRC, MDF did not become widely available until fairly recently (1980s-1990s). Before then, weren't most speaker boxes made from some other engineered wood product (such as plywood or "beaver barf" chipboard)? I suspect I'd prefer the sound that comes out of an engineered-wood box to the sound that comes out of a plastic/metal/concrete/fiberglass box (all else being equal ... which they probably wouldn't be.) Anybody using bamboo, maybe? It makes nice wind chimes. Couldn't somebody build a 2-way bass reflex cabinet from a big whomping cylinder of giant bamboo? |
Actually, Yo-Yo Ma only uses the carbon fiber cello for outdoor concerts. His principal cello is a 1733 Montagnana from Venice, valued at $2.5 million. He also plays a 1712 Stradavarius, the Davidov Stradivarius (likely worth $10+ mill) which was owned by the great cellist Jacqueline du Pre, who played it in the late 1960s and upon her death in 1987 made it available to Yo-Yo Ma. |