Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?

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Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« on: 28 Mar 2011, 04:20 pm »
I posted in the Open Baffle forum and they threw me out!   They said that my SoundScapes are not a pure open baffle.  I looked in the archive and found out that Jim and Dennis never specifically stated that they were an Open Baffle speaker.  What are they?

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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #1 on: 28 Mar 2011, 04:35 pm »
Maybe we should just call them an open back speaker.  A true open baffle would not have a cabinet behind the driver to help control wrap around of an out-of-phase signal in the lower frequencies, and would probably also have an open baffle woofer.  Or Jim could call it a Pseudo-Quasi-Sort-Of-Open-Baffle.  Kind of. 

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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #2 on: 28 Mar 2011, 04:38 pm »
The woofer and tweeter are not open baffle, the midrange can be, depending.....

In the purest sense, an open baffle is a speaker mounted on a board (baffle). No box.

The Salk Archos are a "hybrid" baffle. Open baffle mid and high, woofer in a box. 8)


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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #3 on: 28 Mar 2011, 04:53 pm »
^ What he said, but the short answer is no, they are not an open baffle.

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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #4 on: 28 Mar 2011, 05:04 pm »

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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #5 on: 28 Mar 2011, 05:39 pm »
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I wouldn't call it "threw you out".

 :lol:

I did have my tongue firmly in my cheek.  :wink:

Bob

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Re: Are the SoundScapes an Open Baffle speaker?
« Reply #6 on: 28 Mar 2011, 05:44 pm »
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Maybe we should just call them an open back speaker.  A true open baffle would not have a cabinet behind the driver to help control wrap around of an out-of-phase signal in the lower frequencies, and would probably also have an open baffle woofer.  Or Jim could call it a Pseudo-Quasi-Sort-Of-Open-Baffle.  Kind of.

A lot of open baffle speakers have the wings folded back.  I haven’t seen any with them folded back this tightly though.  I am not sure there is a rule.

Bob