Requisite Audio gear looks darn good! This new speaker is exciting. Meanwhile, respectfully, the word is connoisseur.
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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My journey is very similar to that of @sns . I just haven't attained his level of sophistication... yet. I started with box speakers but once I heard the Dahlquist DQ12s (the precursor to the Nola) I couldn't unhear the box. I've listened and the presentation of the box speaker is lacking air, realism, it is very constrained. The only way I can explain it is if you stand behind someone talking / singing and then put them in an enclosure that's what box speakers do. All that resonate information that is also audible from the front is absorbed and the lack of it is very noticeable. Like SNS I too have moved to corner horns. For some reason they don't have that Box sound and don't take up any actual living space. As and experiment I would suggest trying a pair of DQ12s. They can be purchased for about 4 to 5 hundred and can be sold for about the same. The DQ20i are a little more but have the same design with better components but are also a little harder to find probably because of their original selling price was a lot higher. They don't have the traditional open baffle look and can be still sound good closer to the wall. Be warned though they will change your perception of what audio sounds like. |
I met up with my friend who is designing the new open baffle speaker I am interested in. I noticed that he had his setup almost the same distance as I sit in my office (near-field). My office is the second floor of my home overlooking the first floor. With an open guard railing that makes the room seem sonically bigger. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that the 15-inch top driver + 15-inch bottom driver configuration will work in this space. He will have smaller configurations but the 15-inch one is the one we listened too, and he said to go with that. The reason being that this system has a configurable bass and the bass dispersion pattern of the speaker is a figure eight shape. So that means I can get speaker to work in the current space and a future space when I eventually move. Unfortunately, this is not going to be cheap, and the following items are going up for sale.
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