Speaker Driver Material & The Sound of Dissimilar Materials


Can anyone explain(NOT anecdotally)how it is possible for a driver made of metal(aluminum etc..)to properly convey the tone of wood & how a wood/pulp or plastic based driver can convey properly the tone of metal(electric guitar strings,cymbals)?This is a very confusing concept to me...
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The driver moves back and forth uniformly. It does not vibrate between two fixed points the way a guitar string or the spruce top of a cello does. Since the driver does not distort, it pushes and pulls air uniformly over the radiating surface so it doesn't matter to the air whether the driver is paper, aluminum, kevlar or any other material. The driver recreates the same pressure wave pattern as the vibrating top of the cello.

Sound waves are exactly what we hear for the waves are rarified and compressed air causing the eardrum to vibrate exactly like the source generating the wave.