3 things make a great speaker the cabinet,the crossover and the drivers of which Magico makes the cabinet and most of the drivers not the tweeter however.Oh well thats my opinion.Good luck.
My Italian walnut diapasons sound pretty good. I’m voting for solid wood. It’s just too expensive. Walnut, maple and cherry is very dense but to build a speaker cabinet it’s just too expensive.
Of the same thickness, MDF is the least resonant and most neutral. Like bamboo and solid woods, birch ply boxes tend to impart a sound signature - typically a leaner, brighter sound than MDF (to my ears).
Weird that aluminum is brought up in a thread about wood derivatives. Aluminum (even "aircraft grade" alloys) will ring unless very thick and carefully braced.
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