I'd like to try making these: JE Labs open baffle Keeping it simple, without a crossover and high efficiency full range drivers. I know lower frequencies will be 'attenuated' but I'm still interested.

I don't want to invest too much in drivers initially as I'm not sure exactly how they will sound and I don't want a couple of boxes lying in the cupboard gathering dust for the next few years. So, I may be asking the impossible but. Could anyone suggest some high efficiency full range drivers that I could pick up at reasonable cost - just to get a taste.? Or - if you use an Open Baffle yourself - what drivers are you happily listening to.? I would suggest SABA Greencones. Buy a set of the mids and tweeters: (rather more than I expected, especially for postage - might be worth contacting the seller direct, I will have his details somewhere).

You could just nail the mid to a plank to see what it's like, although I would recommend soon using the tweeter and adding an Eminence Alpha 15' (about £100 a pair), as you need big for the bass in OB. Then you have a pair of Lampizator P17s:.

I built a pair of these and they are great - so did SteveRB, who preferred them to some really expensive speakers. Download Pandora Hearts Sub Indo 3gp there. I have probably the full range of XO components that you need, which you could have at a minimal price, and I could also suggest ways to make them a bit more room-friendly. You then have some 95dB/W speakers that sound great.

But just start by nailing the mid to a plank. The highs won't be that refined, and there will be sod all bass, but it will give you a good taste. And you could sell them for a fairly minimal loss, I would have thought.

Projects - Basic Betsy Open Baffle. As far as I know, the idea for this folded baffle design originated here, in a thread Dan Mason started over at Audio Circle. There are dozens of ideas in that thread. Here is the design I use. You can build this in an apartment in less than two hours (well, if you don't finish the boards) with no. I love new and vintage full-range and open baffle speakers. See more ideas about Range, Audio and Gears. I'd like to build an open baffle system and have done some research but I wanted to ask the opinion of some of you gurus on driver/design. Projects - Basic Betsy Open Baffle. As far as I know, the idea for this folded baffle design originated here. Remove the driver and drill the pilot holes.