Open baffle speakers

Box speakers with multiple drivers create a slew of problems: cohesive sound across the drivers, degradation in sound quality from cheap connectors and crossovers, uncontrolled sound waves bouncing around inside the cabinet, and a waste of money on cabinet design and manufacture. Get a world-class single full-range driver for the cost of an entry level box speaker. You can even get excelllent quality sound from a $400 set of 15" Lii drivers. Or use an 8" driver with a good sub for the lowest frequencies; it's the right tool for the job. Life is as hard as you make it.

Is it really that simple? Why so many people in the dark, when here all along we just needed a pair Lii drivers.

I like both the OB and the closed model of the Songer speaker.   The OB was a two way system using their field coil driver as a woofer/midrange coupled to an OB tweeter.  The closed box speaker did not have a tweeter so the field coil driver operated full range.  They both sounded very good, which is probably more of a testament to their field coil driver than to other aspects of their design.

There is another OB field coil speaker that I've heard made by Treehaus Audio.  They use huge slabs of wood cut so that the edges of the panel hold the outer bark of the tree.  The speaker can be stunningly beautiful.  One of the drivers is an old Klangfilm field coil driver that has been reconditioned.  I generally like the sound, though not as much as I do PureAudioProject and Songer Audio speakers, and they do look stunningly beautiful.    

I’m sure there’s an argument in here somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can find it.