If by "regular baffle" you mean the sound suppressor that comes with it, I love it. Because I have purchased the Marthy's mid ship header pipe, I have an R6 muffler installed. It came with a smaller diameter sound suppressor, which sounded good, but when I put the larger diameter sound suppressor from the FZ8 muffler in, it sounded even better. It was pretty cool to be involved with the process of all of this. Mr. Coffman and Martin "Marthy" are good people to deal with. I couldnt be happier with the results of all of this. Either of these mufflers look cool on the FZ8, the sound is good and the price is reasonable.