It's lightweight and rigid and, more than anything else, provides the perception of modernity to the consumer.
Wood is so 19th century!
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?