Battle of the Open Baffles

It is rather amazing they are discounting the Maco Acoustics speakers by 40% for early adopters.  Bringing the plywood model fairly close to the price of the Caladans.

I thought reading between the lines that Jay was not as enthusiastic about the Maco as he might have been, but maybe just my imagination.

@jetter I'm a big fan of "non-box" speakers i.e. dipole, bipole (had mirage M3s forever), Omnis and open baffle (had dahlquest DQ 10 40 years ago).  Im sure there are differences (between the different kinds) but the speakers disappear, and throw a wide soundstage.  On the other hand I gather they are known for bad imaging.  Jay starts to say this but doesn't fully spell it out. 

I have lusted after PureAudioProject Quintet15 for years, but can’t seem to pull the trigger without hearing them in person. They are very elusive and it’s hard to spend $10K+ and still need to assemble them. 

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.

I definitely have enjoyed most of the OB speakers that I've heard and a lot of them seem to be great values. Just all set here with my wood boxes. 😉