Why not more popular?

OP so we are clear the NX-Oticas are a long ways into Dannys speaker making career. Some of the early OB that GR had dealings with, it took a football field to get them to sound OK. The later stuff and Danny’s personal growth has certainly helped.. He’s not too thick headed, BUT thick headed enough to stick with OB and finally come up with some pretty good speaker kits. His OB servos are the bomb.

I think a little different than most, but GR makes a GREAT product.. and intergrated well with MY type of system..

GR likes OB dipole, I like Dipole speakers, just not OB monitors. I like about 20" between front and back poles... I don’t like to mirror drivers either. Just because there is 5 in the front baffle doesn’t mean there needs to be 5 on the rear baffle pole..

I had 123s mercy... what a nightmare. They set more than they were EVER played.. They were so song specific.. THEN HEAVEN.. Weird..

Regards

I have owned spatial audio before and may buy their new X 3,x5 series  the only unknown is who makes the Tweeter- mid AMT unit 
once that ? Is known then I will consider on buying them .
hopefully not made  in China !!

What I don’t understand is why there are so few speaker companies making open baffle speakers, and why are they not more popular among audiophiles?

Because we all hear differently, have different tastes, different rooms and different systems. Different companies have different technologies or design philosophies they want to feature.

If I could listen to every speaker out there in my room, with my electronics I would probably end up with a different pair of speakers than what I have. Different electronics too. Since I have to buy something in order to listen to it, and I buy used for that reason, my selection is pretty dramatically restricted. Most of us here are probably in the same situation. So we end up with the best that we can do, not necessarily the best possible.

Open baffle remind me of fat gym teacher. Something just not right.

@audioman58, The AMT horn-loaded tweeter in the X series is a Beyma, made in Spain, great driver.