best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti

"Right now, I am not convinced that baltic birch is my best choice although I realize it is my safest."

Given that it is seemingly the choice of the people who designed the speaker, ie the "experts", I would assert that it is also the best choice for now as well as the safest until someone proves an alternative to be better.

How they would do that short of having done it and allowing you to hear, I do not know.

Plus, Audio Note is not a company known to cut corners with its products as best I can tell. If they know of a way to do it better, they probably will, but you will also have to pay for it if it matters to you, of course.

I suppose the other way to look at it is that if you use any good materials for a good reason, the results should at least also be pretty good.

But to claim "the best", at least to me, there has to be some proof to go along with the claim.

Hearing is believing!

BTW, I am a big fan of companies like Audio Note that stick with a basic good design and attempt to tweak it to the max over time, but also offer lesser versions at different price points along the way.

Layered Birch used in MAGICO MINI 2.

Ebm - That would be a good suggestion if he were building Magico MINI 2 speakers. He claims he isn't - so why push that foolish notion?

The way I interpreted the OP's query is this: He wants to build a pair of speakers because such a project enables him to merge his two hobbies. He has already done some research and is willing to gamble on the Audio Note design he mentioned without the advantage of hearing them first. Not his first choice method but he feels it to be a worthwhile gamble. He posted here in the hope that he could benefit from the knowledge and experience of others. It does not appear that he wants to be steered toward your favorite speaker or distracted by speculative misinformation. I could be wrong about all this though - I'm not him, after all.

Its said they would be even more money now.Foolish its not.

Magico Audio Notes.

Take the best of both worlds and sounds like a winner,
doesn't it?

Or does it?

Is it Magico or Audio Note?

Or something totally different?

Only one way to know for sure.

Someone build it and listen and see!

My bet though is the cabinet is a big part of what makes
Audio Notes Audio Notes.

And Magico's Magicos.

Each in a totally different way.

Interesting dilemma!