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.
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... |
Don't you just love how people go completely off their nut when you say something they disagree with! |
That's what happens when you choose and expensive, flimsy and ringy material like aluminum just because it's fashionable! |
A less wordy method to show where Metal is shown to have very different intrinsic properties relating to Damping / Dissipation, where a RIDWB (Panzerholz) is the material being compared to. https://www.lessloss.com/the-virtues-of-panzerholz-ezp-80.html |
