Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there?
I understand that wood is cheap and a box is easier to make than a sphere but when the speaker companies charge tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for their speakers, shouldnt consumers expect more than just a typical box? Are consumers being duped?
Back in the 70’s a speaker engineer found that a sphere was best for a speaker. A square box was the worst and a rectangular box was marginally better.
The speaker engineers have surely known about this research so why has it been ignored?
Cabasse is the only company doing spheres. Should wooden boxes be made illegal
Seriously for a moment, now.... Wood and its’ variants as a enclosure is all well and good. With the advent of CNC/CAD-CAM/3D printing (no longer in infancy, noooo), ’boxes’ can be ’put up on the shelf’ ( to pun badly ) and other designs can be explored... Wood, plastics, CF, glass....even the concrete’ mystique’ if one opts for that....’shotcrete’ a shape that compensates for resonance and vibration modalities... Infinity beconds....sound from sculpture? Why not? Make SAF go ’foom’....;) |
All the Kenidjit manages to do, is to cheapen Audiogon. Audiogon wants to be the premier place for high end audio discussion, and for the sale of used high end audio gear. Can you imagine if one of his threads, any one of the really, as they are all the same, was the first thread a new visitor to the forum arrived at? they would be “This is the dumbest crap I’ve ever read” |
Kenjitt and Urbie both. @perkri +1 |
the question should be why are so many manufacturers using wood like guitars, furniture, etc. I guess the old violins are not worthless right!
It seems easier to make changes to a design for example tweeter placement, just out a new piece of wood and drill a new how instead of re-tooling to make a change to hear the differences. |
