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High-End Hemp Speakers Are All the Buzz

Posted March 08, 2010 10:51 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

John Harrison looks like an unmade bed, talks more than Larry King and says he sees sound as color. He makes speakers out of hemp, and to spend any time with him leaves you thinking he's smoking some of the product. It would be easy to dismiss him as a lovable, eccentric old hippie. But the man might just be a mad genius. He has rethought the most fundamental part of a speaker -- the cone -- and traded paper for hemp.

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Re: High-End Hemp Speakers Are All the Buzz

03/09/2010 6:15 AM

Hi there,

what about Manila paper for speaker cones? It is (or used to be) made of hemp.

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Re: High-End Hemp Speakers Are All the Buzz

03/10/2010 9:37 AM

Does smoking them after listening to Jerry Garcia getcha' anything?

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Re: High-End Hemp Speakers Are All the Buzz

03/10/2010 4:21 PM

Come on! This is lame.

At this level, sound quality is totally subjective. Or, in this case subliminal.

Wow dude, speaker cones made outta refer.

Cones are only one element of sound quality.

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