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RE: High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material?

I don't know anything about high end anything, but let me share some experience with you:

People say to just use MDF. MDF has relatively little sound but the sound that it has is pretty ugly.

You can go to the thrift stores -- they're a big business nowadays -- and get a desk or table the top of which is 1-1/4" good old fashioned chipboard. There are different grades of chipboard, but the older you get the more likely that it'll be quality stuff. Use that for the baffle and the back. Use MDF for two of the other sides and use fir plywood not birch plywood fir plywood for the other two sides. Which sides is up to you.

Thusly, you won't have one material dominating the sound, you'll have generally good-sounding (except the MDF) materials, and you'll be doing just about the best that a person can do.


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