Battle of the Open Baffles

It would be quite hard to ship the quintets as assembled speakers.  It does not look that hard to do the assembly.  They are, to me, very much worth the effort.  I’ve heard the Quintet with the wooden horn midrange/treble module, and the Trio with the coaxial driver module and both struck me as extraordinary for the money.  I do want to hear them with the field coil Voxative module; I’ve heard the Voxativ in other speakers and it is quite a good driver-very dynamic and engaging.  However, the field coil module brings a serious bump up in price.

I definitely have enjoyed most of the OB speakers that I've heard and a lot of them seem to be great values. Just all set here with my wood boxes. 😉

Spatial Audio speakers have impressed me greatly at shows (usually paired with LTA electronics) and were fer sure my vote for best bang per buck — can’t wait to hear feedback on the new Caladans.  Best sound I’ve ever heard was the Nola Grand Reference driven by top ARC electronics so I’m on board with the OB design concept and hope to own one of them some day.

I belong to a large metro area audio club and I have not heard any other club member’s system sound better than my GR Research NX-Otica open baffles.

Paired with a 300B tube amp, they are heaven on earth.

For outstanding OB performance look up -- better still, listen to -- Linkwitz' LX521

S. Linkwitz (RIP) was one of the legendary engineers in the audio sector (think of the Linkwitz-Riley xover, for example)