Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler open baffle subs

Any good design can give you clean accurate bass, but there are tradeoffs with each choice of design.

For ported designs size is often an issue, but it gives you the best power efficiency. Poor design can lead to port noise.

For sealed, you gain the advantage of size, but trade off efficiency and some additional distortion (though its questionable whether or not said distortion is audible). You also need to EQ the bottom end.

I havn't looked at open baffle, so I don't know the trade-offs involved.