From: trevor@home.net   
      
   On 25/09/2014 5:41 PM, geoff wrote:   
   > On 25/09/2014 6:46 a.m., David Platt wrote:   
   >   
   >> On the down side: it wears out tool-steel saw blades quickly (use   
   >> carbide!), it's heavy, it's not all that rigid (you're right, good   
   >> bracing is very important), and it can crumble at the corners if   
   >> struck.  And, of course, Stradivarius didn't ever mill any of his   
   >> better violins out of it :-)   
   >   
   >   
   > That's what makes MDF *great* for speakers. You DON'T WANT your cabinet   
   > resonating and radiating sound - you want it as insert as possible,   
   > exactly the opposite of the case with violins, guitars, pianos, drums, etc.   
      
   Right, which makes MDF a good *compromise* for speaker boxes only.   
   Hardly best in any single parameter however.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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