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the rationale is that because MDF is so tightly packed that it acts as a damping factor.
The Audio note speakers are designed to use the box like a guitar to improve its efficiency.

MDF is pretty strong too as its just fibers bound by glue - wood is also fibers bound by glue (lignins). Wood may warp easier than MDF, though. But on the other hand, if you get your MDF wet...good bye.

The problem is people cannot wrap their head around the fact that because the speaker is designed like a guitar box that it can reproduce music (of the non guitar nature) properly. And of course I understand that - so my theory is simple go listen and decide. There is a breathey quality to guitars that's for sure that is not there in any boxed speaker from anyone else i have heard.

92135011 you came to Audio Note quickly - Terry and i agree that the people who buy AN tende to be slightly older audiophiles older than myself - perhaps in their 45+ range. It is for people who have been through the other designs grown tired of them and as he said "paid their dues." Soundhounds carries a lot of brands as you know - but get the list of what they have carried over the years and it's a much bigger list. I don't know if you met Terry when you were there but he doesn't actually sell anything, He sits on that couch in that kind of dumpy room opposite the B&W home theater room. He says this is the room the guys let him have to toy with. He is more interested in what you the audiophile consumer brought with you on the audition list so that he can hear a band perhaps he hasn't heard before. That's pretty much the extent to the sales pitch.

No speaker is perfect - there would be no way to know even if it were. I want it to sound like music and I don;t want to have listener's fatigue. FOr the first several hours on the J/Spe they were a bit fatiguing because i was not use to the bass presentation - because it is so tight and deep and I was used to the flabby kind my Wharfedales present. Now when I go back to things like the 705 it quite literally seems like I'm missing such a huge portion of the music that it's virtually unlistenable.

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I do admit that I'm into this stuff pretty fast.
I have the J/spe, kit1, and preamp kit at the age of 21. So I'm almost 25 years ahead of the average 45 yr olds who buy AN?
Unlike you, I did not find the Js very fatiqueing mostly because I heard everything so differently that I was excited to find out how different the next piece would sound. And of course, they were always improvements of what they sounded like before. I'm no experienced audiophile or whatever, but after auditioning for half a year, going from place to place, these were the most musically satisfying pair I have met. I'm not really good at analysing microdynamics or macrodynamics - I'm not even sure what they mean. What's really important I guess is that I'm happy with em.