Wide baffle speakers are better than narrow

If you mount drivers on a canned ham you can sort of replicate a human head...for this to last you do need to keep the listening room very cold or have a shorter listening session followed by sandwiches.

erik_squires, opinions vary.
The very best loudspeker I have heard used a seas exotic driver with the tweeter baffle removed and replaced by an ovalized 4mm solid copper baffle (due to the Young’s Modulus of copper). Which was designed to work in a 2" thick acoustic foam baffle that absorbs reflected energy from the back pressure.
The entire baffle away from the drivers was 2" thick acoustic foam treatment, essentially done to try and mask or remove the baffle from the overall sound the drivers were tuned to produce.

After hearing this I am wondering when someone will make a driver with a cast pure copper basket, as the Young’s modulus of copper lends itself to stop ringing from the basket itself. And yes this has been tested, by using a solid copper backing behind the front seal of the frame and pure copper screws to attach it to the baffle.

Anyway, opinions vary, just like whether or not vibration decoupling loudspeakers from the substrate between them and electronics makes a difference.

Either way, I’m pleased that you are happy with the sound your system produces. So am I with mine :-)

HELOMECH has hearing issues and should just buy a Kenwood stack from the 1990's. VANDERSTEENS take weeks maybe months to break in. Setting them up and doing critical listening after a couple hrs break in is nonsense. You didnt even get a chance to hear what the loudspeaker could do. Instead all you loving this wide baffle crap sure must love the sound of phase and time distortion as well as the reflective smearing that goes on with wide baffles. Go minimal baffle or no baffle(electrostatic, ribbon) or go home!!!

I own many types of speakers, including panels. If a speaker doesn't sound good within 50 hours play time, I'm not going to bother with it any further. That's plenty of break-in time. I don't care how a speaker measures on paper, if it sounds bad, it's bad. I can still hear above 16kHz, my hearing is very likely superior to yours bud. Go kick rocks.

It might be said that the physics of all the requisite aspects of a perfected speaker, all disagree with one another.

Which tends to complicate any given build, into the given form of compromises... that the given builder may have chosen.

Speakers are natively acts of compromise.

@teo so very right :-) the trade space is wide

@wolf_garcia i like spam !!!! I have a couple of microphones that will work, now what shape head ? I think Jimi would be good... tune up your axe

@wolf_garcia   .....lunch with you would be interesting....not to mention an omelette....

"Will crusty bread improve the sound of the mustard?"

'Why does the eggs make the cheese shrill?

tomic....are we 'experienced' enough to cope with this? *L*

Will this be just another canned condition?!  While my amp gently weeps....it sounds 'just like buttah...." ;)

"I'm in the mood ....for flashbacks..."...and more cowbell....*smirk*

'dam' hippies'....

Old hippies don't die....they just vague away....

I'm going to go to bed and watch the ceiling melt....

Only if you prefer reflections from the cabinet, rather than from the wall behind.  I use ths  windows, blinds, and curtains behind my speakers for tone controls.  Open windows are the best, except for my neighbors.