Wide baffle speakers are better than narrow

Yet another advantage of wide-baffle is that you can stick a 12" woofer on the front (see current thread on 6.5" woofers).
It's all about the wave-launch and how the size of the baffle affects this.
Narrow baffles were largely the invention of interior designers.

When John Bau designed the Spica Angelus he made the baffle narrow for the woofer/midrange, but wide for the tweeter. 


I own a wide baffle Spendor 9/1 and a narrow baffle Gradient Revolution and each sounds quite good.  Not drawing any hard conclusions, but I'm thinking that baffle size is just another element in an overall loudspeaker design.

Don't shoot the messenger

My first exposure to narrow face loudspeakers was Genesis Vs, which were slight of face  + a separate powered sub with remote VC, and Polarity  http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/vandvi_brochure.pdf

I was also involved in the early days of Nearfield Acoustics  Pipedream loudspeakers, and later the early days of Scaena Loudspeakers

Neither of these obscured the sound stage in any way, unless the system driving them was not up to it

Wide-baffle speakers are capable of excellent imaging if competently designed, better than narrow towers in many cases.

Listening to my Audio Note AN-J's I would have to agree. Also I feel like I read an article on wide baffle speakers recently and can't recall wear.

Also massive self unaware irony alert! kenjit just called you a troll.