Open baffle speakers

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.

• RAAL VM-1a tube headphone amp
• CODA #16 amp
• Audience FrontRow speaker cable
• Sanders Magtech amp
• Magnepan Mini speakers
• KEF KC62 sub

Tekton has now open baffle.

Thanks, this is very good news, Who is next Magico Tidal , KEF ??

@yyzsantabarbara You should be able to acquire an OB for the price of a used Coda 16. I paid $3k for these with a 15” woofer and sub designed specifically for OB’s. And they were made with zero MDF. They’re solid Sapale, commonly used as a Rosewood replacement for guitars.

The huge benefit in OB’s is the capability of using flea watt tube amplification to drive them. You can’t do that with a typical box speaker. You need power, and typically lots of it to drive them. You need none of that to drive OB’s

@coltrane1 the one I am getting is still not released but I heard it with a Felix Envy 8-watts (maybe less) headphone amp. Only issue for me is that I will take a slight hit in the quality of amplification for the speaker that currently is driven by the #16. I am thinking of either the Schitt Tyr or Wutan for that speaker. It is a trade-off I am willing to make.