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Prettiest speaker wood
08/24/24 at 18:45:28
 
My question to you all is this, what is the prettiest wood for speakers?

I had my pair of Koa speakers out in my garage doing some maintenance and decided to throw a coat of beeswax on them to spiffy them up.

Wowza, I had forgotten how pretty the Koa is.

So what do you have that is prettier than my Koa?

Here is my entry into this contest:









Quilted and extremely chatoyance!
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Re: Prettiest speaker wood
Reply #1 - 08/24/24 at 19:14:15
 
That's very pretty. I think I would love a pair of speakers in purple heartwood, but that is expensive and hard to work with I hear.

My favorite speaker wood finish that I have is a pair of maple HR-1. Maple may be nothing special, but with the balck speaker housing and speaker, and the black top and bottom, it matches my maple Mapleshade Audio Samson Ver. 3 rack with maple platforms and black components so very very well.
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Reply #2 - 08/24/24 at 21:41:57
 
I custom-ordered my LS3/5As in ebony, and eventually got matching ebony SUB3s. So, I'm going with ebony.
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Reply #3 - 08/24/24 at 23:41:20
 
I had a pair of Infinity Servo’s in the 70’s that had a spectacular rosewood base cube with an 18 inch down firing speaker, it was quite a system.
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Reply #4 - 08/25/24 at 01:05:21
 
Can’t say any one is my best or favorite … but these two speakers (rosewood and burled olive) are amazing in very different ways🤯


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Reply #5 - 08/25/24 at 02:49:38
 
Hearafter,

Very pretty!!
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Reply #6 - 08/25/24 at 05:45:54
 
Those are both gorgeous!
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