I agree you need an artisan of wood to know how to use a particular wood properly. Not Luthier levels but still experienced. I have no idea how to stop solid wood cracking and splitting when in a cabinet with humidity changes so I wouldn't even try. But a plain sharp edged box seems a waste of real wood.
Sonus Faber, for all their other issues knew how to make wood look good IMO
What Bonsai said.
And marketing departments that have been so good that many otherwise good designers choose MDF because of the myth of MDF.
The hi-end speakers made of MDF are examples of brute force over elegant design to solve/miniize a problem.
dave
And marketing departments that have been so good that many otherwise good designers choose MDF because of the myth of MDF.
The hi-end speakers made of MDF are examples of brute force over elegant design to solve/miniize a problem.
dave
Myth of MDF without citing a single example.
Elegant design using plywood panels? Those are not as consistent as MDF in material and some have air gaps within due to the nature of plywood layers.
I tend to think the choice of MDF is a matter of diminishing returns when someone gets all crazy with choice woods. Any "sonic signature" with well made cabinets of MDF vs. 'real woods' is likely beyond our ability to actually hear any differences...Now of course someone within five minutes is going to write in here to say, "I can hear the differences between Cherry & Walnut...and five year aged Hickory vs. twenty year old Hickory"....garbage, self aggrandizing garbage. These are the same types who hear 'parts per million' and a whole host of nuances that even can't be measured by instrumentation.
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Assuming you're talking about the currency, I went on a UK site and this driver (looks like an Alpair 10.3) is £77.08. So what exactly is the discontinuity?
Believe it or not, there are people on this planet that are skilled enough to build beautiful looking and sounding speakers from solid wood.
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I have lots more pictures of these in solid. Built by a maestro. These a dark walnut. Living on the coast is a torture test for these. Still happy. Solid is not impossible, just requiring more skill.
dave
dave
I get it, what you meant by "elegant design" is the appearance.
Did someone doubt it?
Thus higher cost for the appearance.
I'm not sure about the currency but as for the speaker cabinet material, if you zoom in on the cross section area of this project, all those dark spots are where the discontinuity is. Some are even void. 😱
None are void. It is utilty grade 15mm BB ply. If he ever saw voids he lost the sheet.
We later switched to th ebetter grade Murphy Ply.
Intended to be veneered. Solid just needs a clear coat, maybe a stain. Same with bamboo plywood (stranded).
dave
We later switched to th ebetter grade Murphy Ply.
Intended to be veneered. Solid just needs a clear coat, maybe a stain. Same with bamboo plywood (stranded).
dave
You or he can see through plywood veneers for the spots that are not cut? 😱 Wow!
I wonder if one of those "stud finder" devices would work for that?
No, those voids are too small for the stud finder to detect. Besides, that device finds solid within void which is the opposite of what to find in plywood panels in this context. Plywood is a crappy speaker building material anyway. If the looks are concerned, it's better to use MDF and glue wood veneer over it.
Thwack vs. Thud...so your saying the resonant frequencies of Plywood are higher on the frequency spectrum than that of MDF? I think most all of us here are aware of that.
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You are right about most, which means overwhelming majority but still not all.