From: trevor@home.net   
      
   On 7/10/2014 6:30 AM, geoff wrote:   
   > On 27/09/2014 6:32 p.m., Trevor wrote:   
   >> 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 :-)   
      
   Or any at all for that matter, since it hadn't been invented when he   
   died. :-)   
      
      
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > I wasn't suggesting making speaker chassis, cones, or magnets out of MDF   
      
   Just as well or you would appear even sillier!!!   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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