Are carbon fiber speaker cabinets inherently better than wood or metal ones


There seems to be a pretty big jump in speaker prices when moving to carbon fiber cabinetry when all else is equal (or what seems like equal). Is this because it is able to be molded into more acoustically correct shapes or simple the characteristics of the material?

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What speaker's walls/baffle/floor base is carbon fiber solely. A .030-.050" veneer does not make a speaker carbon fiber nor does a Rosewood veneer make a speaker rosewood. 

Carbon at a thickness to resemble a wood cabinet would be very brittle in nature if using sheet form to construct. It will need to be thermoformed to make it very stiff and rigid. How many speakers are thermoformed with carbon entirely? Zero!