The whole delusion about loosing detail or quickness with a ported design is unfounded. You will have perceptibly less bass output with a sealed system, thereby emphasizing the attack over the fundamentals and overtones. What is lost is often the freedom of the lower midrange and bass that tend to expand out and energize a room when played live. A lot of the energy is often in the recordings, but too many audiophiles tune it out in favor of an Uber Detailed sound. Real music has power, physicality and it fills the acoustic space with vibrant resonances. Taming the source material by overdamping a speaker to accentuate leading edge definition is foolish and not in pursuit of the Real Sound!
