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Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-bizarre dept.

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!"

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  1. Rice, eh? by shog9 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    How can wood be made pliable enough to form into loudspeaker cones? That question stumped engineers for decades until Satoshi Imamura discovered the answer: rice wine.


    Hmmm... Perhaps a use has finally been discovered for Budweiser...
  2. These speakers are for one thing... by Faust7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I will use those speakers specifically for watching anime.

    It only seems appropriate.

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    The coolest voice ever.
  3. Kanpai! by ttfkam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sumimasen. Sake o kudasai.

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    - I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
  4. Re:In other news... by zagmar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I hear that nori makes a great replacement for vinyl when making records.

  5. Japanese Speakers by awol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am no audiophile, but I have never found a set of Japanese speakers (of even moderately high quality) that were any good. They're (the Japanese) whole approach to speakers just doesn't seem to work to my ears/cultural programming. I don't believe that I am totally alone on this front.

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    "The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is stop digging."