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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?
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.
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 :-)
He had to show some kind of results.
...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!
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!"