Battle of the Open Baffles


Watching Jay's video today about the Maco Acoustics speakers, and saw the Caladan's late last year.  Seems like open baffle death match is brewing...

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I’ve heard several systems with Voxativ field coil drivers and they are remakably dynamic, which is why I am interested in how they sound in PAP systems.  My concern is with how bright and sharp sounding, something I heard with their driver and some other field coil widerange drivers.  I hard similar sound with various Classic Audio field coils and the G.I.P. 4165 12” full range driver.  
Some other field coil full range drivers are smoother and more mellow, such as the ones used in Songer Audio speakers.  The best wide range field coil I’ve heard is the Jensen M-10, a driver that is from the 1940’s.  

Pure Audio Project speakers should be in the battle as well—terrific sounding speakers.

It would be quite hard to ship the quintets as assembled speakers.  It does not look that hard to do the assembly.  They are, to me, very much worth the effort.  I’ve heard the Quintet with the wooden horn midrange/treble module, and the Trio with the coaxial driver module and both struck me as extraordinary for the money.  I do want to hear them with the field coil Voxative module; I’ve heard the Voxativ in other speakers and it is quite a good driver-very dynamic and engaging.  However, the field coil module brings a serious bump up in price.

The Trio 10 with the AMT tweeter is a terrific sounding speaker.  I heard this speaker at this year's Capital Audio Fest.  I also heard, and was particularly impressed with the OB speaker from Cinnamon, a Portuguese company.  This compact system is a three way speaker with an active, DSP controlled woofer module.  It is quite a bit more expensive than most OB systems on the market, but, it is a great sounding system. 

I don’t know what was being run, but they shared the room with a company called AGD, so it probably was their gear.  To me, the PAP speakers were the best bargain at the show.  My other favorites—Songer fieldcoil speaker, Cinnamon open baffle and Voxativ (tall stack of speskers) were all about $30 k or a little more than that.