hmmm,
Suri, Sorry to hear that your open baffles sucked. I should count myself lucky that mine did not. In fact they were pleasant not only to me but to all(not even a single one disliked the sound) the guests who visited me.I didn't ask anyone if they liked the speakers. It was always a spontaneus response that the speakers are sounding good. I admit that they were not all audiophiles but one of them was.
I have never heard TLs but i have heard some good speakers(including Quad floor standers with Denon 710, PSb towers with NAD, JBL E seriestowers with HK3490, Denon with jamo C series, Wharf towers with NAD and CA 650). All these speakers are considered good by many people. I liked OBs after hearing those.So come what may, I can't get OBs out of my head. After all perception of sound is personal.
no offense meant, jaudere -
i have followed your posts and as a fellow DIY'er - i posted those comments above -
i have heard (supposedly) high-end OB loudspeakers (commercial as well as DIY - i will not name - do not want to be a magnet for ire) -
and-
none approach the ease and fluidity - and accuracy and wholesomeness - of systems that isolate completely the rear and front compression/rarefaction waves of the component drivers that constitute the loudspeaker in question.
my comments are not directed at anyone (you included) in particular - and is not meant to be a diatribe against OB loudspeakers either.
However, i would urge you to listen to well-implemented (DIY and commercial) box (enclosure) loudspeakers -
you are frittering your life away (subjective, yes - but i wasted a good part of my life, and i feel like Semmelweis).
and to quote -
"Beginning from 1861 Semmelweis (suri) suffered from various nervous complaints. He suffered from severe depression and became excessively absentminded. Paintings from 1857 to 1864 show a progression of aging.[Note 13] He turned every conversation to the topic of childbed fever (transmission line loudspeakers).
After a number of unfavorable foreign reviews of his 1861 book, Semmelweis (suri) lashed out against his critics in series of Open Letters.[Note 14] They were addressed to various prominent European obstetricians (audio-video fora), including Spth, Scanzoni, Siebold, and to "all obstetricians"(DIY'ers). They were full of bitterness, desperation, and fury and were "highly polemical and superlatively offensive"[4]:57 at times denouncing his critics as irresponsible murderers[6]:73 or ignoramuses.[4]:41 He also called upon Siebold to arrange a meeting of German obstetricians somewhere in Germany to provide a forum for discussions on puerperal fever where he would stay "until all have been converted to his theory."[13] The attacks undermined his professional credibility.
In mid-1865, his public behaviour became irritating and embarrassing to his associates. He also began to drink immoderately; he spent progressively more time away from his family, sometimes in the company of a prostitute; and his wife noticed changes in his sexual behavior. On July 13, 1865 the Semmelweis family visited friends, and during the visit Semmelweis's behavior seemed particularly inappropriate.[6]:74
It is impossible to appraise the nature of Semmelweis's disorder. It may have been Alzheimer's disease, a form of senile dementia, which is associated with rapid aging.[18]:270 It may have been third stage of syphilis, a then-common disease of obstetricians who examined thousands of women at gratis institutions.[6] Or it may have been emotional exhaustion from overwork and stress.
In 1865 Jnos Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On July 30 Ferdinand von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse (Landes-Irren-Anstalt in der Lazarettgasse).[5]:293 Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks, on August 13, 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, possibly caused by the beating. The autopsy revealed extensive internal injuries, the cause of death pyemiablood poisoning.[6]:7678
Semmelweis was buried in Vienna on August 15, 1865. Only a few people attended the service.[6]:78 Brief announcements of his death appeared in a few medical periodicals in Vienna and Budapest. Although the rules of the Hungarian Association of Physicians and Natural Scientists specified that a commemorative address be delivered in honor of a member who had died in the preceding year, there was no address for Semmelweis; his death was never even mentioned.[6]:79
Jnos Diescher was appointed Semmelweis's successor at the Pest University maternity clinic. Immediately mortality rates jumped sixfold to six percent. But the physicians of Budapest said nothing; there were no inquiries and no protests. Almost no one either in Vienna or in Budapest seems to have been willing to acknowledge Semmelweis's life and work.[6]:79
His remains were transferred to Budapest in 1891. On October 11, 1964 they were transferred once more to the house in which he was born. The house is now a historical museum and library, honoring Ignaz Semmelweis.[4]:58
well - hehehe!!
regds suri