Tone wood


When I bought my Fender Stratocaster Deluxe last year, I just knew I wanted a maple fingerboard. Guitarists know that maple has more snap than rosewood. Same thing for the neck: some guitars are wonderful with mahogany (think Gibson, Hamer) and some get it right with maple (Fender for one, Godin, but the list is long) and even solidbody guitars sound different depending, along with other factors I agree, with the tone wood used for the body (swamp ash being a favorite, mahogany sounding warm with lots of sustain generally). My question then:
What is the best veneer for a dynamic box speaker? Will genuine Rosewood sound warmer? Will maple have snap? How about some exotic wood, like Kalanthas? The best fingerboard material is ebony, How about a 100% ebony veneered speaker; it would cost about 500K, but geez that's life. Should I worry about the actual density, glues used etc in the MDF with which they are constructed? It seems to me that if the dielectric's of a metre length of interconnect can affect bloom, and the height and width of the image and even, I have this from a reliable source, the separation between the instruments in the orchestra, surely 12 square feet of veneer and God knows how many sheets of MDF in a well constructed dead sounding box must have an effect on the sound?
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Everything has a different resonate mode and the variation in wood has to have an effect on the sound of the speaker.

I was told that the inside of ALL speakers, regardless of price, are built with particle board. I am not sure how accurate that staement is but it makes sense.