Wood Cones and Sake Recipe!

JVC's latest audio innovation is the 'wood cone speaker' - a loudspeaker with a cone made of wood instead of the usual paper, plastic or metal.

The Japanese engineer responsible, Mr Imamura, has been attempting to build such a speaker for 20 years in the belief it would offer 'natural resonance like that from a musical instrument'. Development snagged because the birch wood cone kept cracking during use - a problem that was solved by soaking the wood in saké. Amino acids in the Japanese rice wine made the wood pliant enough to work as a speaker cone.

I am not sure about the use of wood but couple of shots of Sake is bound to increase listening pleasure.

 

and that JVC EXA1 system that features it sounds crap. Even when the sales rep put a dvd-audio disc in, to say i was disappointed is an understatement. £500? rip off.
http://www.jvc.co.uk/product.php?id=EX-A1E&PHPSESSID=273a380e3a0be968acd2a66b32864a86


all imo of course, and good in theory

 

Not quite! Vifa make a range of cones made out of wood fibres (that's paper to you and me ). The JVC cone is the real deal. It's wood! Still sounds awful though

 

just think what they could have done with dvd audio playback and a digital amplifier had they stuck with proven and tested metal/paper/plastic/kevlar cones instead. me thinks the sq would have been much better....

still...