Well - open baffle has some advantages cancelling the sidewall reflection. However, as I need to place the fullranges quite close to the front wall, the rear wave from an open baffle will produce unfortunate early reflections from the front wall. Happy X-mas to you all🙂I suggest to try in open baffle as you use a support woofer
Almost every FR gets better when relieved of the heavy lifting. The SEAS is one of the more bass capable FRs, its issues are up higher (and largely fixivke — at the source of the problem.
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