What determines port location?

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What are the factors that go into determining whether a ported speaker has a front or rear port?
It would seem easier to put it on the back as there's more real estate but that would increase boundary effects (perhaps desired, no?
The reason for asking is that I noticed GR Research has a speaker that's normally ported out the back but they port it out the front for a center channel. Is it correct to assume that the front ported speaker sounds different, perhaps not as good, as the rear ported one?

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Topic - What determines port location? - Doublej 09:43:38 01/01/02 (5)

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