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Internal bracing/damping probably matters more than the cabinet material

And those Magico cabinets are MASSIVELY braced inside -- see link. Combine this with constrained layer damping, and they WILL NOT ring.

The little Genelec studio monitors that HR reviewed a few months ago show some of the lowest cabinet resonances that JA ever measured. They are also aluminum.

Back 30+ years ago, B&W developed their "matrix" system, which braced all (MDF) panels to all others with multiple intersecting shelves, and filled the intervening spaces with damping material.

Most other high end speakers that I have seen cutaway views of exhibit extensive internal bracing, along with a variety of panel damping strategies. The goal being a cabinet that is dead-daddy-dead.

The choice of more exotic and expensive materials in some brands is, I suspect, another way to justify prestige pricing. Similar results can be obtained with commoner/cheaper materials, IF the engineering is good.

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