Elemental Designs boasts green speakers

As (typically) passive devices, loudspeakers are low on our list of components we'd look to for making our systems more eco-friendly. But the MDF (medium density fiberboard) that most affordable speakers (yeah, not these) use for cabinet construction is a material straight out of the fast-food age -- bits of wood held together by some not-so healthy chemicals. But speaker manufacturer Elemental Designs is moving away from MDF in favor of Environmentally Friendly Substrate (EFS), a wood composite material without the nasty binders. Better still, EFS is actually more dense than MDF, which is always a good thing for speaker cabinets; the EFS enclosures produce smoother response curves and higher SPLs than the MDF ones. Here's to a better sounding, greener planet!

[Via audiojunkies]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 4:58PM]

This is a great advance, hopefully it'll make lower end stuff a little more enjoyable.

Definitely not for high end stuff though... unless they can find an interesting way to maybe ply this with some nice woods for even better response?

Regardless, nice to see anyone trying to move away from mdf.