Wooden Speaker Cones

[Wood Borer]

JVC are making wooden speaker cones!

http://www.jvc.com/main.jsp

Soundman - here's an opportunity for you.

[Twodogs]

The Timber should give them very good Timbre

[knucklehead]

This seems strange to me. One of the reasons MDF had been extensively used in speaker boxes is because it has a consistent density. This is supposed to be a good thing for audio. However one of the reason that JVC gives for the timber cones having good performace is the irregular makeup of timber.

Don't get it...

[jshaw]

Haven't speaker cones generally been made from paper in years gone by? There's a whole heap of Tassie wood chip exporters that might give you an argument that that is wood... ;)