There are good and bad sounding speakers using all sorts of cone material.
More important is cone suspension/surrounds.
Most modern speakers use quite thick rubber surrounds which allows for long cone excursion, which allows them to produce lots of low bass.Unfortunately it also produces a slow smeared sort of sound.This is why most modern mainstream speakers sound so bad and why so many hardenned audiophiles end up using things like Fostex,Lowther and Zu speakers that have cloth surrounds and short excursions.
Anyone who dosn't believe that modern cone surrounds are wrong needs to listen to a pair of old Goodmans Axiom 80s that have no surrounds!
JT
More important is cone suspension/surrounds.
Most modern speakers use quite thick rubber surrounds which allows for long cone excursion, which allows them to produce lots of low bass.Unfortunately it also produces a slow smeared sort of sound.This is why most modern mainstream speakers sound so bad and why so many hardenned audiophiles end up using things like Fostex,Lowther and Zu speakers that have cloth surrounds and short excursions.
Anyone who dosn't believe that modern cone surrounds are wrong needs to listen to a pair of old Goodmans Axiom 80s that have no surrounds!
JT