Are carbon fiber speaker cabinets inherently better than wood or metal ones


There seems to be a pretty big jump in speaker prices when moving to carbon fiber cabinetry when all else is equal (or what seems like equal). Is this because it is able to be molded into more acoustically correct shapes or simple the characteristics of the material?

sokogear

@sounds_real_audio: Incorrect. The primary and most important reasons for and benefits of bracing is to:

1- Minimize the ability of the enclosure to expand (like a balloon being blown up)---thereby propagating sound---in reaction to the internal pressure created within the enclosure when the drivers move inward. That pressure is extreme, like a pot of boiling water with a tight lid on the stove with a high flame. Wall-to-wall braces prevent the enclosure from doing that. Again, look at how Jim Salk braces his subwoofer enclosures, and how Magico braces their loudspeaker enclosures.

2- Raise the resonant frequency of the enclosure panels to that above those excited greatest by the most problematic of the enclosure frequencies---the low ones (bass).

Seems with 3d printers it would be pretty easy to build a carbon fiber enclosure. I know they aren’t real quick but with 2 way fancy monitorS going for 5 figures seems like 12 hours (or whatever) in a printer wouldn’t be that much of a deal. 
 

BPB24 

Incorrect. Total BS. 

Please tell the readers why the Stealth planes that are designed to avoid radar are made from Carbon fiber. Please tell us. 

@sokogear 

 

Why did you say without the negatives of open baffle? I have own many box and Open Baffle speakers over the decades. My much preferred preference is OB, which allows the money spent/wasted on the unnecessary 3 sides to be spent on better drivers and XOs (assuming they are).