Good Old Chipboard

I observe that all the medium-priced turntables (all turntables are expensive) rely heavily on MDF for their basic structure.
I'd love to see some adventurous soul find some good-quality good old fine-grained chipboard and run off a couple test units identical to their MDF models.  I suspect that they might sound better.  MDF is supposed to have very little inherent sound, but the inherent sound that it does have is yucky.
Of course the most important thing is trying to sell it to people, and that would be tough.