Roland68
Major Contributor
You might be lucky if you found such good paper based bass and midrange drivers such as SB Acoustics Satori in a $3000 speaker.I have mustard enough courage to make this comment publicly and I know there will be a whirlwinds of rebuttals, anger and attacks. But I have decide to brace myself to make such comment.
I agree that there is no such thing as perfect transducer as it is an engineering trade off. Paper cones and soft dome cones have certain properties that are superb and some of the best sounding speakers uses such material. Case in point, the MoFi speakers designed by Andrew Jones. They are super speakers. . .however. . .
If I am paying $3k for speakers, I would feel ripped off that it uses paper and cloth as it will give me a cheap feeling. I would like to see a baby unicorn sacrificed for it's horn as parts and material for my speaker.
OK, I am ready for my punishment for insulting paper cones and soft domes, but first get a ticket and get on line to insult me.
But I think that after this statement you don't deserve to ever have this pleasure. So I wish you, with all my heart, only high-tech materials for the future.
Something I've heard over and over again from speaker developers and chassis manufacturers for 30 years is something like this: It's difficult to develop chassis that are as good or better than paper and there will always be important features missing.
But it's much easier to sell customers some nonsense high-tech material.