Speaker cabinet materials.


Just wondering what are some of the materials used in building cabinets for speakers? We all know of mdf and solid wood, but how popular is aluminum? Magico and Piega use it. Are there others that use aluminum? And what other materials are used? What about acrylic?
Acoustical wool and mass loaded vinyl is used inside, what else is used?
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Showing 1 response by ngjockey

I forget the name, but I've heard fairly thin laminated wood speakers. The motivation was to build them in the same way as a violin is made and they did a good job with piano. Almost dipolar with all it's resonance.

The Krell LAT-1 was aluminum, wasn't it?

I think we're going to see more speakers made out some form of molded synthetic or compound in the future. Should make production less expensive.