There are a couple of opinions referencing the Dahlquist DQ10 "...lack of imaging...". In my experience Speaker imaging in most part is impacted by three components, placement of the speaker(s), speaker design/build and the acoustic dynamics of the listening area. Also to clarify the woofer in the DQ10 is a non-ported sealed unit so that driver is not "open baffle". Jon Dahlquist and his engineering design staff described/introduced the DQ10 as a "5 speaker Phased Array, open baffle" design. The vast majority of industry reviewers and audiophiles then and now still view it in that light. It's ground breaking design remains a highly regarded speaker in the evolution of the audio industry. I'll close by sharing that a brilliant university professor ended a lecture that I attended with the following, "Opinions, by their nature are always correct" She then added as we were about to exit, Oh, do you agree with that observation, what is your opinion of that? Consider that as we shall dialogue on that at our next gathering. She was a pistol that always motivated us to think.
Open baffle speakers
Open baffle speakers design is the simplest , to get bass response similar to other design , like ported, the baffle size must be huge to avoid low frequency degradations . Tipical size the baffle width 10-20" got weak bass performance. I am wondering how open baffle speakers design became so popular ?
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@mijostyn agree for 100% to produce bass 30 Hz baffle size must be HUGE common OB speakers only can start from 100Hz, you say if anybody dont belived -measure , But no any Loved OB want to measure, Just happy what they get |
@ozzy62 Are you measure or just listen ?? |
I am getting an open baffle speaker in Dec. Do not know the name of it yet, but I heard half of it as a prototype in June (bass was missing). I have a lot of faith in the designer. I will be getting the smallest version which is made for recording studios monitoring consoles. That will also work on an office desktop though I will use stands. My friend told me that his new speaker sounds better than my Yamaha NS5000 speaker that he heard and loved with my CODA #16 amp. I have my doubts about that but if it is in the same ballpark then that would be a home run for my office. His speaker can be driven by 8 watts so I will use the Schitt Aegir 20-watt Class A amp (for now).
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