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Wow... JVC's woodcone drivers!!!
#21146 10/01/03 09:26 PM
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Yesterday we were talking about the "warm" sound of wood. Turns out that there are engineers who don't take it as a joke at all!

I just found out that JVC has been developing speaker drivers with a thinly sliced then pressed piece of birch wood!!! The chief engineer had kept a "burning desire" to make a woodcone speaker since 20 years ago, when he made some initial prototype drivers. He eventually made it into an official project 5 years ago, which resulted in a dozen or so patented methods of making a cone/dome out of a thin piece of wood. They hope to release the first bunch of complete speaker systems by the end of 2003; I have no idea if they will market them outside Japan. Now I have a "burning desire" to listen to these speakers!!!

Anyway, here are several photo's...


The 8cm (3") mid-woofer


The 1" dome tweeter


Woodcone material after the "tertiary press" stage


A prototype bookshelf


A prototype floorstander


Hey, the shape of the cabinet looks soooo familiar!!!


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#21147 10/01/03 09:34 PM
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Masa, is this one of those games where someone makes up a story and everyone else has to guess if it's true or not?

Will they call it the "Pinocchio"?


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#21148 10/01/03 10:05 PM
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They look nice enough, I wonder what they sound like. I also wonder if they're stealing any Axiom patents!

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#21149 10/01/03 10:21 PM
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Yes, this is for real. But all press releases and news are in Japanese so far. Here is a web translation of JVC's original PR by babelfish.altavista.com, with some additional photos.

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#21150 10/01/03 10:50 PM
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Ooh, pretty! :-) I wouldn't mind hearing those. On the other had, JVC...


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#21151 10/01/03 11:14 PM
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In reply to:

On the other hand, JVC...



HAHAHA... I know your feeling. Isn't it exactly like when you find out that Honda makes S2000 with its crazy 9000rpm redline? You thought that Honda was the maker of Civic and Accord... It is refreshing to watch a big mature corporate doing such "playful" things.

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#21152 10/01/03 11:15 PM
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Naw, the Honda's no surprise. They also made a world dominating F1 car about, what, 10 years ago, and they also make the NSX. I'm just not a big fan of their styling.


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Re: Wow... JVC's woodcone drivers!!!
#21153 10/01/03 11:22 PM
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True. And let's not forget about their supebikes, too... Just couldn't come up with a better example. Anybody???

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#21154 10/02/03 12:22 AM
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nice.. I would love to hear those. now we just need those wood interconnects and speaker wire!

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#21155 10/02/03 12:28 AM
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Alright sushi, I nominate you to go audition them.

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