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?

sokogear

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Carbon fiber in a wet layup application would be absolutely awful in this type of an application.  Now if one had a cabinet design and a mold so that this process could be accomplished using an autoclave, or vacuum forming utilizing a  prepreg carbon Kevlar weave in multiple layers, final finishing layer in straight carbon fiber with a 2 stage urethane finish, it would look awesome. Not sure about the sound though. 

To @sounds_real_audio point fiberglass would be 1/3 the manufacturing cost. Can be blow-molded or autoclaved.