2. speakers
  3. 1176227689

Open Baffle Terminology?

I had always understood the baffle to be the mounting for a speaker designed to prevent rear radiation from cancelling front radiation. Practical limitations, i.e. length of the lowest frequency wave of interest, usually argues for some sort of enclosure rather than a huge mounting surface. Do people really mean an enclosure with an open back when they refer to an open baffle? I've seen this now several time on Audiogon. One 'goner emailed photos of his elaborate "open baffle" construction, and indeed the speakers were mounted in baffles that forms a sort of wing open to the back. Such a design may give great dispersion through reflection, but LF response would seem limited.

db
Ag insider logo xs@2xdbphd

Showing 1 response by john_3147911c

john_3147911c
2 posts
 
Study this guy's site for awhile. You need to eq to compensate for the low frequency losses, so you need lots of good quality displacement. In return you get freedom from many of the room modes that play havoc with your system's bass in the time domain.

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/design_of_loudspeakers.htm
More to discover