[news] Wooden cones??

[Geek]

Wouldn't wood stamped like that have natural resonances that would kill a flat response?

 

[Scottmoose]

Probably. Depends on whether or not you're actually aiming to achieve a flat response or not.

 

[soongsc]

I've listend to these. They sound okay for background music. Sold as bedroom sets.

 

[DaveM]

My inlaws have a set. They are very pleasant. Not anything special in terms of resolution, but I can't imagine anything sounding bad on them. They are definately a bit soft on the top end and are a bit relaxed. The biggest advantage is that they are beautiful. Solid cherry boxes and the wood cones are very pretty with the grills off. I think it is a total case of spousal aceptance factor as the priority. They do need a sub, but again for the non-audiophile they are very nice.

DaveM

 

[el`Ol]

An other wooden cone.

 

[peterbrorsson]

Well,
a story from a Swedish saw mill! There are still farmers in Sweden that have some 150-200 years old pine trees on their properties. One saw mill, near my bearth place got these 1 meter thick trunks into their facilities. problem was that they couldn't process them. Their machines was not big enough for these dimensions.

Some Japanese came for visit and asked to buy them and deal was done. Later a foreman, in the sawmill, called and asked what happened to these trunks. Answer was that the Janese had compressed them with some heavy machinery, combined with heat and used them as beams in buildings. Now if pine is compressed with huge pressure the lignin in pine reacts like glue and makes it solid like a composite. So that would maybe be the ultimate cone material!
Anyone have some machinery that could compress wood with 2-300 tons and slice it in proper thickness??!!

 

[Geek]

Anyone have some machinery that could compress wood with 2-300 tons and slice it in proper thickness??!!

Hmmmm, scale-up a microtome and add a hydraulic press. Easy