Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there?

@kenjit I thought you previously said that speakers made of concrete must be the best? You are just trying to be provocative as usual saying sphere enclosures are superior yet you provide no specific references whatsoever on how you came to this conclusion. I have yet to see you post what you actual own and why. Instead you just blow up this forum whenever you log on. PS Audio btw only has one model of speakers so far - the FR30. Plenty of illustrations for your expert eyes to scrutinize. That aside, what matters is how a pair of speakers sound in your system in your space to your ears. For this reason, there are no perfect speakers. This is why there is a myriad of choices to satisfy peoples budgets and personal preferences.

Kenjit

I have to ask. What do you own for speakers? I’m guessing nothing made of wood or with any flat surfaces. Just curious. Thanks 

I own custom modified hand tuned speakers. Some are wood some are not. What I own does not represent what i would consider perfection. There is no harm in using wood for testing purposes.

This hobby is ridiculous sometimes, but these threads are entertaining.  Not all speakers are boxes, we have electrostatics and open baffles.  I have rear ported boxes, they sound fine to me.  I’ve had to move them once, the shape was convenient.

Tonight we listened to the Thanksgiving Dinner playlist on Spotify, it was great, something for everyone.

Perhaps I was too wishy washy with my Owl response, so I will default to my standard response to a Kenjit thread.

DeKay 

I thought you previously said that speakers made of concrete must be the best?

MDF is the most common material. Some use concrete some use thin plywood. The goal is to make sure the speaker does not sing. You use whatever is most neutral. Do you not find it the least bit suspicious that the materials and methods used to make high end speakers also happen to be the cheapest? Are we being duped?

You are just trying to be provocative as usual saying sphere enclosures are superior yet you provide no specific references whatsoever on how you came to this conclusion.

I provided the link to the work by Olson which someobody tried to dismiss by saying it was limited range of measurement and single point microphone which is hogwash. He then contradicted himself by citing examples of speakers that have a shape thats nearly spherical. So he cant make up his mind whether spheres are right or wrong.

I have yet to see you post what you actual own and why.

Hogwash. What would it prove to post pretty pictures of your listening room with a bunch of shiny gear and speakers? Unless you listen to it yourself, you'd never know how it sounds. 

Instead you just blow up this forum whenever you log on. PS Audio btw only has one model of speakers so far - the FR30. Plenty of illustrations for your expert eyes to scrutinize.

Theyre nothing close to round or spherical.

That aside, what matters is how a pair of speakers sound in your system in your space to your ears. For this reason, there are no perfect speakers. This is why there is a myriad of choices to satisfy peoples budgets and personal preferences.

Thats a misundertanding of what hifi is all about. Speakers should reproduce what you feed them. Nothing more or less. If you are listening to bookshelf speakers you are missing a few octaves of bass. So you are not getting out what you put in are you? it doesnt matter if you think it sounds ok, its WRONG. 

We dont need a myriad of choices we need less.  We need to get rid of half of the speakers out there on the marketplace that arent good enough. Then it becomes easier for audiophiles to choose.