Open baffle and beaming

[mashaffer]

Hopefully a fairly straight forward question. To what extent do the back-wave reflections in an open baffle loudspeaker mitigate beaming from larger mid-ranges?

 

[CharlieLaub]

Hopefully a fairly straight forward question. To what extent do the back-wave reflections in an open baffle loudspeaker mitigate beaming from larger mid-ranges?

One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

No "mitigation".