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Post Subject: Carbon front bafflePosted by tuga on: 7/24/2008
Carbon is used by Audiotekne in a variety of products, from vinyl claps to a speaker with a 35mm carbon front baffle.
Some guys in Italy compared the same housing configuration built in wood using the same driver and they swear it's so much better but I have never listened to it myself.
Carbon's infinitely fine atomic structure of crystals makes it, as you say, a very inert material.
If you're looking for a light and inert material it would be interesting (and very complicated) to use LECA (light expanded clay aggregate) but you'd then have to cover the throat with some (sound) reflecting material.
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