Are exotic speaker cabinet materials overrated?

@ditusa Producers vs reproducers. Good way of viewing it!

 Musical instruments are sound producers; loudspeakers are sound reproducers.
All musical resonance is already encoded in the recording.
When a cabinet adds its own vibration, it’s not revealing music—it’s adding a new instrument that wasn’t there. That may be pleasing, but it’s no longer faithful reproduction.

Sound producer → allowed to resonate

Sound reproducer → must not

@tcutter The supplied image is very good for demonstrating two areas under discussion as follows:

1, The Skeletal Bracing is obviously complex and of a design that should produce a Skin on the structure to conforms to a parameter of resonance control set by the Speakers Manufacturer. 

2. Even though complex as an assembly, the design creates a methodology to produce a bracing structure, that is not complex to produce the parts, (think CNC or another computerised cutting tool to achieve the basic components). The Assembly of the Bracing Framing, does not require a skilled individual, basic training will create a individual quite able to put the assembly together.

The Company has shown wisdom in their approach to controlling costs for their specific needs. Maybe? as a result, there is also a improved confidence in what a supply chain can be consistent in offering. I feel confident this also extends to the design for and selection of materials used to produced the enclosure of the structure.   

This is a very old argument.

I would think that eliminating cabinet resonance is simpler than controlling it the right way, or tune the speakers, as someone would say.

But speakers must be 'alive', whatever the philosophy.

@gdaddy1 If I am blind, production or reproduction is just a definition and isn't relevant. Additionally, horns, kevlar, carbon fiber, paper, metal domes, capacitors, etc produce their own inherit sound. Speakers are therefore instruments as they produce their own sound. This is reality, not a theory or Utopian belief.

@foggyus91 99% are made of cheap materials? Ridiculous. Did ASR kick you out of their forums or something? I'm not sure why you insist on making such claims. Genuinely curious. Do you need to be right? Okay, you're right. Concrete is the best material to use for construction of a speaker cabinet and everything else is inferior. Happy Holidays.