-=[ Quoting DAVE HALLIDAY to ANDRES VALLOUD ]=-
 >a way to deploy a diamond coating on things which would increase the 
peaker
 >efficiency a lot (imagine... diamond-hard cones. Btw, more clarity than 
er
 DH> Question:  I know that diamond has a very high hardness.  It is very
 DH> good for cutting things.  I also know that a diamond is very brittle.
 DH> The way a jewelry diamond is made is by chipping off parts until it
 DH> has the cut desired ( it does this along plains of crystallization so
 DH> you get nice regular facets )
 DH> I would imagine that a speaker cone with a diamond coating would
 DH> fracture the first time you applied a signal to it...
Actually I don't understand why they want to use diamonds on a speaker
cone, but I'm familiar with diamond coatings.  We're talking a very thin
coating here, and very strong.  Why diamond, I'll never know.  Whatever
happened to the idea of making cones from polyimid?
                                Phil
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