Mr. Link comes to the rescue again.

Thanks for the clarification Micah. I understand now where you are coming from.

I was thinking more of the quality of sound, and there, two similarly well engineered subs or speakers, one ported and one sealed, will not sound any different.

If you look at a frequency response graph for a sealed vs ported design using the same driver and without and equalization/dsp you will immediately see the difference between the two designs. The seales driver will roll off more gently as frequency drops. The ported design will 'fall off a cliff' below port tuning.

From there, the driver design and the goals of the designer dictate which direction to go.

As a general rule, with a sealed sub, you trade off size for efficiency/power. This is the main reason sealed subs remain popular. Not everyone wants a large box in their livingroom.

Fred

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