No but I do like my magico,krell lat 1, all aluminum as there fun to move around.then there is the vmps super tower one big square box.they all sound great.enoy the music
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.
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@pindac Watching the Youtube video on the 'B&W factory tour' building the 800 series they use their own fabricated version of Panzerholz. Muti layers, pressure,heat. Amazing construction process. Forming the shape is something special that can't be done using flat panels. Most manufacturers and DIY'ers are restricted to box shapes. Rounded smoother shapes are desirable. For this reason I do find the croncrete speaker a very worthy experiment over the added cost of Panzerholz and shape limitation. Concrete (or a blend thereof) of might even be superior!
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@mark200mph how do they resonate when pushed hard with boosted bass?
@gdaddy1 800s still resonate and sound woody when pushed hard.
@foggyus91 all the supposedly inert materials assume recordings are perfect, which they aren't. The treble is rolled off, which is a miscalculation for flat speaker theory and why they sound dull, lifeless with no detail. Additionally, recordings don't capture the full sound, resonance and attack as when instruments are played in the living room. It doesn't make sense to me to reproduce and restore the sound of wood by converting it to concrete or any other material. You have metal domes to reproduce metallic instruments but you still need a wood cabinet to reproduce the sound of wood instruments. |
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