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RE: Tell us the most obscure tweak you know of that works:






An almost free tweak anyone with rear firing speaker ports can try. I'm not a huge fan of ported speakers, many tend to chuff. That said a speaker I really like and often recommend is front ported and doesn't suffer from this issue whatsoever so not all ported designs are bad or need tweaking.

A sub I often recommend and happen to own a pair of are rear ported, twin ports to be exact, and with my room's issues this was causing me problems. I tried different things, one being bass traps but I'll get back to that in a minute. Another was stuffing the ports with socks, thought about big rubber stoppers but I've tried those in the past with smaller ports on regular speakers and they just don't sound right.

Well the answer should have been obvious, I guess the only reason I never thought of it before was the ports were always much smaller. I'm not sure why it works so much better than the rubber stoppers, maybe the flexibility of the material being so thin? I don't know, I just know it works, one day I plan on painting them black lol. They wedge in pretty tight so no worry about them flying out.

As for the bass traps, these were left in place as a final tweak, and have a very high WAF, silk plants strategically placed around the back and sides of the speakers.



Edits: 05/01/17

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