In Reply to: Bass reflex vs acoustic suspension vs inf. baffle posted by dcal40@aol.com on September 9, 2016 at 13:16:34:
I own woofers that were carefully designed to be used both as bass reflex and closed box. The closed box is definitely tighter and better controlled than the ported version.
However the ported version(which has a lower 3 dB down point does display a certain sense of more 3D space. Both the woofer designer, a friend, and I both agree on this and on what we hear. But the extra space is actually a distortion caused by longer overhang, longer settling time, for the ported box than the closed version. And the designer, of course, does know this. Interestingly though we agree on what's happening he likes the sound, the airy affect of the reflex version and I prefer the extra definition of the closed version.
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