How much of a factor is dust to open-baffle?

Did this to my A5s since my room acoustics are very poor. Mounted them on biscuit tins that I stuffed with modelling clay. Theres a sub below which is more of a midbass unit. Needa get em measured but my EMU unit broke before I finished getting everything in order. At the very least, I'm not getting the boxed up sound and room modes before this.

For my next one, I'm kinda exploring full range boxes and more specifically BMR OBs.

Yup! It is, I got it from doujin store White Canvas when they had a booth at a con. I have a couple of puzzles that I have put of from finishing :3

I don't think I'm getting a much better solution with smaller speakers(like less than 5") than I'm getting with this one without spending a ton on say Genelecs.

To put it concisely.

The good:
-Wide sweet spot
-good imaging but not exactly pinpoint
-clean treble
-open sounding without port farts and any enclosure modes

The bad:
-3k peak that decreases with distance and toe in.
-not exactly the cleanest midrange
-1 note bass courtesy of the sub I'm using(not the A5's fault)
-drivers not exactly capable of concert level SPLs, tweeters tend to distort at 3k at that point. :X

Misc:
-Decent detail but does not dig as deep as the HD800. A/Bing stuff is more difficult on this.

Got my mike a few weeks ago and had a go measuring my speaker's in room response which... was pretty darn bad haha. Did some eq from there but will probably do some more detailed eqing or integration some other time. Got the imaging to be more or less precise enough. The drivers hide some low-level detail but for now I'm satisfied with what I have.


Mic setup is a EMM-6 on a mic stand with a Cross-spectrum labs cal.frd at 90 degrees incidence. 1/12 octave smoothing for this


Looking at a bunch of stuff as always since I will be a student again in sometime with access to a good workshop so I really hope to capitalise on that to get projects going and done. As always I'm on a shoestring budget and its really more for my desktop scenario with little space. Keeping those in mine, I'm seriously giving a few drivers/speakers in mine. Mostly point source implementations.

Some stuff I'm looking out for,
Fostex: I doubt they have much good for me since their stuff are always in larger setups.
Tang Band: Their new drivers look really attractive, currently one of my more go to options.
Cotswold BMR drivers: Seems like the way to go as well,full range in a small form factor.

Sorry for missing this altrunox, I would go with the above for a desk. The best place to start with integrating stuff would be to read up on how crossovers work.