Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF?

I’ve had the inert kind....sorry, but they do not sound organic and alive like real music.

Wood...my Totem Cherry Forest Signatures Sound like a Stradivarius !  Fine musical instruments are made of wood.  Can you imagine a plywood, MDF or aluminum violin 🎻. Yikes!!!

Ctsooner, I wasn’t implying any particular speaker was “the best” silly.  I am saying that most of the speakers that I have owned tended to deliver a more natural sound when made of wood.  The worst were the Wilson’s.  Magico’s were overly deadened to my ears.  Anyway, just saying I hear a dramatically improved sound with a well done wood speaker.  Harbeth uses this approach as well I believe.  

What I do is I sits my arse down and listens....if it I get a “Holy Crap” feeling, this sounds so freaking real and alive like live music, I’m satisfied.  Deadening anything too much sucks the life out of the music.  You can hypothesize all day long, but results are what matters.  I’ve owned the over damped, $20k plus speakers and found them soulless!

Vince at Totem makes cabinets impervious to environmental variations.  They are unique in the industry.  He also makes crossovers like few, if any others do.  

Ok Helomech the great...protector of things absolute!  Within the normal standards of cabinet design, Totem makes their speakers far less susceptible to various environmental conditions.  Their crossovers are special by virtue of quality and tolerances as well as being hardwired by hand.  

Ok maybe dunking them in water or putting them in a kiln would cause the Totem’s to change their sonic character.  

I use my ears!

Forest Signatures!  

Who gives a fig anyway...the best speakers I ever heard were a Bozak B-313b bookshelf speakers.  Great drivers and crossovers in a plywood veneered whatever box.  Didn’t care, they were unbelievably musical and dynamic and did justice to all kinds of music.  Sometimes execution means more than pseudo intellectual techno babble from wanna be designers.