Ultimate Open Baffle Gallery

Jump to Latest
#3,545
TimA said:
Yes, I'm not sure if they are wax or oil types but they are on bass and midrange with Mundorf silver gold oil on the tweeter bypassed with soviet teflons.
Click to expand...
They can be also type МБГО (look all same), on western datasheets they are listed as paper in oil. I had open them, inside they are very wax like and on soviet datasheets they are пропитанная церезином - ceresin impregnated, what mean wax.
 
#3,547

Attachments

  • Open Baffle Dipole Speaker Demo with Sennheiser Binaural Mic - Acoustic Elegance, Mundorf, Zapc.jpeg
    Open Baffle Dipole Speaker Demo with Sennheiser Binaural Mic - Acoustic Elegance, Mundorf, Zapc.jpeg
    71.9 KB · Views: 723
#3,548
TimA said:
Here is my latest open baffle design/build.

Drivers are Beta15a, Seas U22 and Aurum Cantus G2si and there's a second tweeter on the rear as I prefer that to just a single front one.

My previous OB which was on a single, larger baffle used open-backed Mundorf AMT with Seas U18 and Alpha 15a and though I like the Alpha very much but the Beta does seem to sound cleaner. Overall the sound is very smooth, clean and transparent :cheerful::cheerful:
Click to expand...

Very nice build and woodwork! And frequency response.

The octagonal U baffle around the 15" seems to be working very well. How deep is the "U side" measured at the middle point from one of the octagon sides? Eyeballing, about 8" between small baffle, octagonal frame, and back wings?

Nice way of hiding a relatively large baffle from non-audio eyes! 😀
 
#3,550
LewinskiH01 said:
Very nice build and woodwork! And frequency response.

The octagonal U baffle around the 15" seems to be working very well. How deep is the "U side" measured at the middle point from one of the octagon sides? Eyeballing, about 8" between small baffle, octagonal frame, and back wings?

Nice way of hiding a relatively large baffle from non-audio eyes! ��
Click to expand...

Thanks. If I understand your question correctly the internal depth (front to back) of the octagonal sides is 6". The baffle is 1".
 
#3,552
TimA,

Can you please share some details about the crossover?
I would like to know how did you manage to get satisfactory bass with a passive crossover and Beta15?
I had an OB with Beta15, but could not get satisfactory bass until I actively crossed it at 80Hz (12 db/oct) plus a bit of EQ...

Thanks,
Vix
 
#3,553
Here's the Xover. The electrical response in my original post shows the resultant bass contouring. Its possibly worth mentioning that the Beta cone has been treated with pva though I don't expect this has altered the bass performance significantly. My sub's roll in at 31 Hz with a 24dB/8ve slope and the bass is simply the best I've ever heard.
 

Attachments

  • Xover.jpg
    Xover.jpg
    20.5 KB · Views: 1,143
#3,556
Here's the raw (smoothed) Beta 15 when measured at 1.5m and mounted in my octagonal O.B. Also the filter response.

The upward sloping filter response does a pretty good job in compensating for the downward sloping Beta 15 response. Slightly more compensation is possible if necessary by enlarging the shunt capacitor, at the expense of reduced efficiency of course.
 

Attachments

  • Beta 15 at 150cm.PNG
    Beta 15 at 150cm.PNG
    28 KB · Views: 1,023
  • Filter response.jpg
    Filter response.jpg
    60 KB · Views: 965
Last edited:
#3,557
I think it was 50 or 60 cm with 120 cm. They no longer exist, as I had changed residence, and the new apartment is unsuitable for OB, so I got back to boxed speakers...
The crossover I had was active, analog, 80hz low pass, 160 hz hi pass, (thanks to Nelson Pass) second order, with a bit of EQ at the bottom and a bit of correction for the fullrange...
I couldn't imagine that anyone could get out with a passive crossover on a Beta 15, shallow baffle, and still have bass...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom