Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered?

This is a most entertaining, enjoyable, and remarkable conversation between 2 people who do not know of what they talk about in fact "cleeds" doesn't even own a Music Reproduction System! This type of argument, disagreement, and debate is because no one involved uses anything approaching a Tru-Fi approach to sound reproduction which demands and requires understanding, knowledge, and familiarity with the properties of sound and the properties of components used to try and reproduce that sound. Now as developed Tru-Fi has profound, deep, substantial flaws mostly because it fails to accommodate, adjust, or even recognize ICSS distortion but  even in the absence or failure to address that distortion in can be shown, demonstrated, and revealed that low frequency reproduction is inherently directional but much less so than higher frequencies which may explain another aspect of this argument here. But many audiophiles are like children who's knowledge, experience, and understanding is incomplete and based on "cartoons" (audio magazines) which as not intended to be taken as valid, reproduceable, scientific research.

heaudio123

Moore is an MSEE whose expertise was codecs and perception who worked on MP3 codec.

Yup, Johnson too. It looks like you have some reading to do!

Come on, you keep throwing out names but not one, not one actual source that supports your claim. 

I've cited two sources. That's exactly two more sources than you've cited.

You are the one making the extraordinary claim ...

No, I'm sharing with you research done by others. That's something you've failed to do.

I will post many papers that support the accepted position ...

Yes, you've promised that previously.

heaudio123"You have not cited one source. Not one at all. A source is a research paper, not a name. Fine I source Floyd Toole. Is this how it works? Names mean nothing. An paper or similar they have published with actual tests that prove your hypothesis"

This is a very common, frequent, repeated type of approach from todays "millenials" and other children who need their "knowledge" prepared, presented, and predigested for they’re consumption the effort, burden, and work is always on some one else to meet their "needs" which are special, unique, and invariably very urgent they are unable to study, research, and formulate original ideas, concepts, and constructs of they’re own commonly.
Anyway you are wasting you’re time with cleeds he is a hemorroid or infected boil on this site you need to explore Tru-Fi and until you understand, comprehend, and can put in to practice and function it’s basic precepts and work with the properties of sound you will be like a blind child groping in the dark for understanding even as you proclaim knowledge, experience, and understanding.

Tru-Fi is all about the properties of sound and many components intended, designed, and marketed for use in Music Reproduction Systems are unable to completely, thoroughly, and properly reveal these properties in fact many are fully deficient, unable, and incomplete as has and can be shown to those who experience Tru-Fi although as I have previously explained, discussed, and stated Tru-Fi by itself is insufficient without introducing the proper mechanisms to adjust, compensate, and correct for ICSS distortion.
heaudio simply repeats previously digested "truths" but any one can do that of course here is one "Perfect Sound Forever!"