Yeah, i meant the cone, not the case
Speakers are made of wood, the good ones are at least.
Unless your referring to the actual drivers, then yeah wood wouldn’t really work in that case.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Well, paper is a very popular material in speaker cones, including high-end
IMALlama@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Solid natural wood is a horrible material for loudspeaker cabinets. Granted, this fact isn’t limited to just speakers. Wood expands and contracts with humidity, which means making boxes of any type out of solid wood complicated. Cabinet doors have floating panels in the center for exactly this reason. That’s why you should use breadboard ends if you want to frame a wood table, otherwise your table will risk warping and cracking. There’s also the whole non-uniform density thing. Most loudspeakers use something like MDF as a substrate and will veneer the outside. MDF is both stable and uniformly dense, which makes achieving a “dead” (or non-resonate) enclosure a lot easier.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Yes you’re 100% right. Solid wood will warp and split, I did mean MDF and should have said as such