your experiences of FR speakers in open baffles

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wd love to hear from anyone who has used various FR's in open baffles or something similar, pros and con's etc. I'd like to try making a 'simple' design over the next two months(if i have enough spare cash), a 2-way with the woofer 'boxed'


I've seen the small Fostex's used but I'm wondering about output/spl. Also if its beneficial to put some sound absorbency behind the FR to preserve imaging.
 
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I tried an OB with a Vifa TC9FD mounted on foam core, glued to a large cardboard "L-wing" OB made from a large cardboard box. The Vifa is actually the preferred FR driver for a very nice OB design called the Manzanita http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/110583-fast-fun-inexpensive-ob-project-46.html#post2752617. I used a boxed subwoofer from an existing stereo and bi-amped with no cross-over. It sounded very nice - open sounding is the best way to say it. It takes too much room though and I never got around to building a proper wood baffle. My post describing this is here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full-range/223313-foam-core-board-speaker-enclosures-131.html#post3372897

I think line-level cross overs between the pre-amp and power amp with bi-amping is the way to go otherwise you spend a lot of money on huge inductors required for the cross over. It costs just as much if not more than getting a second class D amp.

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thanks for the replies; Norman I looked at the link, cheers for posting. i wanted to either mount the FR in an open ended short stuffed tube or similar, to absorb some of the back wave
xrk971 I was planning to go for a passive x/o and use same cone material drivers(alu or paper). This way i was hoping a simple 1st order wd suffice, altho I'm worried about overlap from the bass driver muddying the midrange of the open baffle FR. As its only a 6dB slope, my idea was to pull the x/o out by half an octave, (300-450hz)to create a little bsc and reduce overlap. Otherwise I'd have to look at mixing a 1st high pass w 3rd low pass ..
 
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