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Is that a solid wood front baffle?
Yes.
Solid wood panels glued together is problematic. I like MDF, particle board, or baltic birch plywood boxes that are veneered to look like real solid wood, then have solid wood baffles that are bolted on to allow some movement.
It looks like it picked up some moisture and expanded slightly. Wood moves, because of humidity, at different rates in the three directions, tangentially in the plane parallel to the growth rings the most. About half that much radially at a 90 degree angle to the growth rings, such as quarter sawn. and hardly any axially, in length, maybe a tenth or twentieth. Sorry I have reached my big word limit.
Do biscuits, dowels, or dove tail help?
That's a double cross grain glue joint. Where possible hide those cross grain joints on the back or bottom. You can use shallow rebates to hide them as well for the baffle to box connection. Veneer is another option. Biscuits and dowels would not help. A through dovetail would look cool and hide the cracks.
Not in my experience. Just makes a louder pop when the glue joint fails lol
You might consider something like this for a small speaker
By placing the corner blocks back it allows for some small movement without having to oversize the counterbores in the pretty face
I just thought of something. This drawing shows a full overlay baffle instead of a flush inset baffle, so you would see the end grain on the top edge.
I'm ok with the endgrain on top of the baffle as there will be a 3/4round there. Not wanting to have screw holes in the front baffle. Wonder if some plugs could be made out of the same wood with a core bit?
The only way I'm going to be able to do a dovetail is with a router and jig. If dovetail, and adding corner blocks on the inside for extra gluing area, is it still going to pop?
Make the back panel removable as well and then you can attach the solid wood front from behind.