High Efficiency Loudspeakers


The Germany Brand Voxative Made very nice but expensive drivers. Especially very interesting the drivers with wooden cones , If anybody listen loudspeakers or drivers with wooden cones and what you impressions ?  
bache

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Excuse me bache my mistake. You would never use solid wood to make a speaker cone as it's shape will change with humidity so I assume it is some kind of laminate. Since the cone has to move it has to be light. It also has to be very stiff. It has to be tough enough to tolerate at least a little abuse. IMHO there are much better synthetic materials to make cones out of. Yes they look nice but that is not the point. Looks really should not mater. It is all about the sound. If there was something special about wooden cones other manufacturers would have already considered it. One would have to assume it is a marketing tactic. So, I would approach these with a bit of skepticism. I would not only listen to them but I would want to speak to long term owners to get an idea of their longevity.  
Bache, it all depends on how the cone was made and what species of wood was used. If the horn is made too thin the wood will resonate like a musical instrument but thicker cross sections of a medium density wood like teak would be very well dampened and tough enough to tolerate some abuse. Are they superior to aluminum or plastic horn's? I do not know. They are certainly IMHO nicer looking and wood allows a different group of people to get involved in making the actual speaker element. A good woodworker can make everything but the drivers which are readily available. I have never made a horn myself but I have a large lathe perfectly capable of doing a horn up to 48" in diameter (the swing on the outboard side is 24") You would do it with a segmented blank.