Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips?

It is exactly what i had done with the rear porthole of my speakers knowing that each speakers is a potential and an actual Helmholtz resonators...

I redesigned the cross ratio ratio from now a bundle of various necks lenght and volume/ versus the interior bottle volume , the result was spectacular in bass recuperation but on all counts too ... I redesigned the wave guide of the tweeter in a specific geometry and dimensions to accomodate my listening position ...

Generally the designer had three choices : an internal costlier labyrinth or an external unesthetical one, or only a tube inside straight or bent ... They almost all exclude the internal labyrinth because of the cost to design it properly and built , and they exclude an external one for evident esthetical and practical reason and cost too... This is why our speakers are perfect rectangular boxes... Cost and esthetic and pragmatism not sound qualities ...

My 150 bucks active speakers are so good i bought a tube preamplifier and now imagine a top speakers sound , miniaturize it , and it is my balanced sound on all acoustic counts, instead of being jealous of top costlier speakers,  i almost pity them , those boxes now  answer to my needs but with no spectacular defects at all ... I dont even need a sub with a 4 inches woofer ...

Acoustic principles rules the gear first as just said erik_squires not the reverse ...

Merry christmas to him and his family ...🎄

@roxy54 Being a speaker builder, I can say that while no speaker is 100% ideal as both ported and sealed, it does let you tune the bass in very important ways, especially if you are using a sub.

You don’t have 100% the control that a speaker builder does, who would know that an optimally flat ported speaker has more volume than an optimally flat sealed speaker, but given room boundary reinforcements, the ultimate judge of which is best can be you.

Not all systems equally resolve. Accepting and understanding that leads to tranquility and a more civil forum.

Some syntax awake the reader as your, some syntax with poor mastery put the reader to sleep as mine ...i only hope that my content can sometimnes awake some ...I am not sure ... But reading you put at least a smile on any face ...

Facts are facts ...😊

(On a personal note: Having GF @mahgister infer to another poster that @yoursunruly can create knots in ones’ brain with my ragged references, inferences, and general grammatic garble sets a high bar that may be too far...but, on the other plan...it allows to perhaps loosen the ones’ that I have in the process...

I, too, thought it an odd tweak to plug the ports on a speaker designed to be ported. But one evening I decided to give it a try so I jammed two crew socks into the port of my left speaker to do a scientific comparison analysis. As men my age have a tendency to do, I soon forgot all about it until few day later when tightening my speaker lugs I remembered the socks and reached in to remove them. But as socks always do, one of them went missing. Strange as that seemed, it became even more eerie when I tossed the used sock into the washer, there was its partner clinging to the inside wall. I don’t even want to imagine how it got there and have since given up on tweaks and have learned to just enjoy the music.

I installed one of those devices that lift the tonearm just before the needle reaches the record label. Has saved me from leaping out of my chair for fear of stylus damage.