Does anyone know where to get the Ultralam plywood that they use in the Spatial Audio X4?
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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@mustagefan Do Note: Companies who use a readily available product and want to keep the Product unknown. Have a new name for the Material, when they refer to it used in their products. Ultralam could be such a name change for another material. How is it described as a unique product? As the Ultralam Brand does nit seem too much of a unique product for Speaker Cabinets. |
A Further search has shown on another forum Ultralam is a version oof a Glulam Beam produced by a German Company. There must be equivalent property Glulam / Ultralam structures found to be produced in other Countries. Shipping such materials is cost prohibitive, hence local production is more market competitive? |
@pindac Thank you so much for your research I realiy appreciate it. |
All things being equal a more inert cabinet will more closely reproduce the original signal. Period. “Exotic” has nothing to do with any of it, it just means that it interacts less with the launched wave of the driver therefore more of the intended signal is transmitted into the air that interacts with the enclosure. I believe those of you who are preaching MDF if best, haven’t heard a better material or are unwilling to admit what they heard. |
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