Speaker cabinet materials.


Just wondering what are some of the materials used in building cabinets for speakers? We all know of mdf and solid wood, but how popular is aluminum? Magico and Piega use it. Are there others that use aluminum? And what other materials are used? What about acrylic?
Acoustical wool and mass loaded vinyl is used inside, what else is used?
pedrillo
Green Mountain enclosures are cast using our proprietary Q-Stone (TM). It has a much different formulation than used in our Diamantes from 1993 to 1997. No internal braces are required. It is far more rigid, and with far greater internal damping. And yes, heavy too, which by itself has little effect on the sound.

Best regards,
Roy Johnson
Designer
Green Mountain Audio
Hey Roy,

Nice to see you on here. I'm excited about your new Eos line. I'm scraping my pennies together for a pair of Eos 1's... I'm hoping I can manage it by the end of July :).

Keep up the good work!

Tejay
My comment wasn't made to disparage GMA in any way. I just wanted to point out, that a material that one would not think of as being able to flex/vibrate, can do so much to one's surprise. To GMA's credit, they found a problem and fixed it. I have great respect for their designs.
Bamboo laminate is used by Escalante and Ascend Acoustics. Ascend has a CSD graph of the bamboo cabinet to show how little resonance there is in the v-lam bamboo. Go to the last graph on Ascend Acoustics Sierra graph page to check it out.