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Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers
geeber writes "And you thought Sake was only good with Sushi? Well, think again! IEEE Spectrum has an article on how JVC has used sake to enable making speaker cones out of wood. Wood has a wide frequency response which makes it desirable as a material for speaker cones. However Toshikatsu Kuwahata worked for 20 years trying to make the cones out of wood without cracking. Finally he discovered that soaking the wood in sake (but not whiskey) made the wood pliable enough to form into a speaker cone. So let's raise our glasses and toast those clever engineers as we crank up the volume!"
Hell, sake enables me to make all kinds of things, most of them accessory fluids for my American Standard, but I sure as hell don't get any stinkin' Slashdot articles about them, now, do I. Harrumph.
Drink enough sake and you will not see any cracks.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
So I guess the sound really does give you wood.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
In other news researchers are using wasabi to implement "Super Bass".
Wow, 20 years is a long time to work on a problem without cracking. Congratulations, Toshikatsu.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
20 years of effort and it's still not working. Time to get drunk. [after a few bottles] heeey woooody, you wanty some sake tooooo?
Drink enough sake and you become excellent karate fighter too! :-)
Make sure your home is termite free. Or you just might find holes in your speakers. Damn those things, I hope they choke on a splinter!
Life is not for the lazy.
After licking too many speakers, they'll start singing karaoke..?
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Of course, true to hi-fi traditions, the best wood will bee the rarest tree on the planet soaked in the oldest and most expensive saki, thereby keeping high end speaker prices in the upper statosphere.
I hear their next move is to replace titanium tweeters with spicy rolls.
...it's been confirmed that alcohol can loosen up the most wooden of individuals.
Good. I can't stand underaged drinking.
True story.
Yes, if religious music is what spins your wheels, now you can have wooden speakers made with... what else but Christ's Sake :-)
Considering people claim to be able to tell the difference between a Stratovarius (spelling?) and an inferior wooden violin
I'm picturing a cross between a stratocaster and a Stradivarius...
He had to show some kind of results.
Sake is also used to make wooden speakers
more lifelike when they talk in front of audiences.
Down a few cups of piss warm sour water and the most most wooden speaker is gonna be much more relaxed.
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
I tried for a long time to think of a joke funnier than this quote.
I couldn't, so lets see it one more time.
If they're made of wood, then scientifically speaking they must weigh the same as a duck. And therefore:
They're a witch! Burn them, burn them!
Oh, for Guinness sake.
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I've known for YEARS that alcohol makes music sound better! Where's MY article?
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They've been around for some time. They're called "paper cones"
I can't wait to get some of these just to have a friend come over, look at them, and say "Cool! Amish speakers!"
I'm waiting for car audio applications so that the following conversation may be possible:
"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
"Well, I'm sure I wasn't speeding, officer."
"Sniff, sniff... Would you kindly step out of the vehicle, sir?"
"Oh, the smell! You see, my speakers are soaked with sake. You know, for the wood. Wooden speakers soaked in sake! I don't drink and drive. Seriously."
"Tell you what, sir, just step back here to my car..."
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
...but my wood is not getting any softer.
Since when did you Americans become experts at this? Leave it to us Australian and Kiwi professionals.
I follwed that link from your post, but it says that I'm not allowed to visit their web site since I'm not old enough. Can someone here get me a fake ID so I can get in???
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I will use those speakers specifically for watching anime.
Nah, put them in your rice burner.
in a speaker cone the only two factors that make a good one are lightness and stiffness.
Funny, I wouldn't think that any alcohol would be associated with stiffness...
No wonder you're not getting any. You're supposed to wine and dine her BEFORE the wood gets played with...
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
It makes perfectly good drain cleaner.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is living in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann
Maybe he should cut back on the sake a bit i say.
You're just white ghetto niggers and your bling bling has seriously gone too far. Don't come whining if your society is going the way of the dodo if you'd rather blow that much money on two damn loudspeakers and their respective cabling. There is a fine line between luxury and decadence. And you've crossed it at least 300 miles ago.
*One* home stereo can never attain the enjoyment of 200 holidays, 1000 prostitutes, 500 cars or in fact 5000 live concert tickets. For 100'000$, you could invite all your favorite musicians for your birthday party and may even have the fortune to sleep with the younger female ones of them.
If you got 100'000$ and the best you can imagine to spend it on is a home stereo for listening to music recorded in the last 20 years (the older ones have too bad quality media anyway), you should visit a) the local supermarket, b) the local etablissements, c) the local luxury car dealer (Ferrari may still be too expensive) or d) the local shrink. You need it. Seriously.
The auditors have some questions about his business expenses.
"There's been some very unusual expenses for this lab, would you care to explain..."
"Well, we've been buying the sake for... ummm... making speaker cones. yes,that's it! We've spent 20 years with our research budget on making speaker cones. Research gets really intense around spring break, and also about the time of our Christmas party, as you can see from our expenses profile..."