Wide baffle speakers are better than narrow

 Yes large drivers do act as moving baffles with the added attraction of even more distotion... hence the curve linear and other exotic cone shapes... none of which are pistonic....

quiz time : what is the name for distortion caused by the moving baffle ? This is why each and every 3 way and up Vandersteen uses a 5” ish midrange and another reason why frequency to baffle relationships matter

oh where oh where are the legendary KEF and B&W designers that built the low diffraction heads on the flagships ????!

And the LS3/5a or Kef 101, Linn Kan , those are the BBC ( or near ) standard imaging kings....and natural vocals...

If you mount drivers on a canned ham you can sort of replicate a human head...for this to last you do need to keep the listening room very cold or have a shorter listening session followed by sandwiches.

erik_squires, opinions vary.
The very best loudspeker I have heard used a seas exotic driver with the tweeter baffle removed and replaced by an ovalized 4mm solid copper baffle (due to the Young’s Modulus of copper). Which was designed to work in a 2" thick acoustic foam baffle that absorbs reflected energy from the back pressure.
The entire baffle away from the drivers was 2" thick acoustic foam treatment, essentially done to try and mask or remove the baffle from the overall sound the drivers were tuned to produce.

After hearing this I am wondering when someone will make a driver with a cast pure copper basket, as the Young’s modulus of copper lends itself to stop ringing from the basket itself. And yes this has been tested, by using a solid copper backing behind the front seal of the frame and pure copper screws to attach it to the baffle.

Anyway, opinions vary, just like whether or not vibration decoupling loudspeakers from the substrate between them and electronics makes a difference.

Either way, I’m pleased that you are happy with the sound your system produces. So am I with mine :-)

HELOMECH has hearing issues and should just buy a Kenwood stack from the 1990's. VANDERSTEENS take weeks maybe months to break in. Setting them up and doing critical listening after a couple hrs break in is nonsense. You didnt even get a chance to hear what the loudspeaker could do. Instead all you loving this wide baffle crap sure must love the sound of phase and time distortion as well as the reflective smearing that goes on with wide baffles. Go minimal baffle or no baffle(electrostatic, ribbon) or go home!!!

I own many types of speakers, including panels. If a speaker doesn't sound good within 50 hours play time, I'm not going to bother with it any further. That's plenty of break-in time. I don't care how a speaker measures on paper, if it sounds bad, it's bad. I can still hear above 16kHz, my hearing is very likely superior to yours bud. Go kick rocks.