Are exotic speaker cabinet materials overrated?


Seems a lot of speaker companies are coming out with new non resonant cabinet materials all the time. Wilson especially seems to be inventing a new M X V material every year. Other top speaker companies seem to be staying with MDF even when their speakers match the above mentioned speaker company prices. Do these exotic materials really contribute to a better sound or do they add an unnatural quality to the sound. 

 

hiendmmoe

@ozzy62 I'm not coming from that perspective. Production as discussed was in relation to instruments producing sound, not studio production. Speakers also produce (recorded) sound if you're blind-tested and didn't know better. This is in addition to the natural sounds they produce.

 

@nondemo ASR is a bad Utopian novel.

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@bartsw 

Speakers don’t produce sound. They are not an instrument.

One thing I will agree with you on is that speakers can be designed to be too dead and inert, which sucks the life out of the music. There is a fine balancing act between too lively and too dead when it comes to speaker cabinets. But I don’t want my speakers contributing to the output with a flimsy, hollow enclosure.

@nondemo Still want to see your system all that Cheap ASR CHi-Fi. 

I KNOW RIDICULOUS... 

@nondemo 

""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."

Don't you just love how people go completely off their nut when you say something they disagree with!