Hi rajacat,
I have to apologize. My comments were directed more towards tweeters and upper midrange drivers. I am not sure how it would react with a full range driver as you have to take other variables into consideration.
Then you enter open baffle full range designs. The narrower the baffle, the more pronounced the upper frequencies are going to be due to limitations in the lower frequencies. The baffle acts as the low pass filter in this type of design and more difficult to tame due to no crossover being used.
As stated under my avatar. "Build your system for yourself, not the critics". In other words, whatever works best for you in your system is what's best.