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<blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 6748572" data-attributes="member: 549629">The common definition of &#039;hemp&#039; is referring only to cannabis, but it applies to more plants than that in reality. Banana hemp, also known as manila hemp, is simply a natural fibrous material cultivated from a plant. These companies who are marketing &#039;hemp&#039; subwoofers are playing off the common definition, while utilizing a non-cannabis related hemp material. You are merely falling into the thought process those marketing people hope/want/expect.The saddest part is, as I stated above, common pressed pulp paper cones are better. Pressed pulp paper cones (treated), while not as glamorous as synthetics like aluminum or titanium or even carbon fiber, not as modern as poly cones, and not as exciting as &#039;hemp&#039; cones, arguably still hold the greatest weight to rigidity ratio and damping qualities of any material used in modern speaker cones. There is a reason high-end top quality speakers still utilize pressed pulp paper, many many decades after they first hit the market. Poly and carbon fiber cones have their advantages, but pressed pulp paper cones really hold the most advantages. This is in regards to low to midrange freqs, as tweeters are another story altogether. Basically the higher the freq response, the better poly&#039;s and carbon fiber&#039;s advantages come into play.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_cone" target="_blank">Speaker cone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><a href="http://www.mother-of-tone.com/speaker.htm" target="_blank">Mother of Tone - About Speaker Drivers</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="audioholic, post: 6748572, member: 549629"] The common definition of 'hemp' is referring only to cannabis, but it applies to more plants than that in reality. Banana hemp, also known as manila hemp, is simply a natural fibrous material cultivated from a plant. These companies who are marketing 'hemp' subwoofers are playing off the common definition, while utilizing a non-cannabis related hemp material. You are merely falling into the thought process those marketing people hope/want/expect. The saddest part is, as I stated above, common pressed pulp paper cones are better. Pressed pulp paper cones (treated), while not as glamorous as synthetics like aluminum or titanium or even carbon fiber, not as modern as poly cones, and not as exciting as 'hemp' cones, arguably still hold the greatest weight to rigidity ratio and damping qualities of any material used in modern speaker cones. There is a reason high-end top quality speakers still utilize pressed pulp paper, many many decades after they first hit the market. Poly and carbon fiber cones have their advantages, but pressed pulp paper cones really hold the most advantages. This is in regards to low to midrange freqs, as tweeters are another story altogether. Basically the higher the freq response, the better poly's and carbon fiber's advantages come into play. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_cone"]Speaker cone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/URL] [URL="http://www.mother-of-tone.com/speaker.htm"]Mother of Tone - About Speaker Drivers[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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