Speaker Bass Reduction

Surely bunging the ports with something solid is going to turn a ported design into a sealed (infinite baffle) design, which could mess up the crossover design and throw off the whole frequency response.

I'm with stehno .. distance from rear walls helps, as can speaker wire.

You have not told us what speaker you are having too much bass with which is crucial to know if you want to ameliorate this problem.If its a home brew speaker than there are a million ways to attack the problem but if its a commercial design than there is something wrong with the design/ and unless you have the speaker 2 inches from rear and side walls it isnt your placement.You should not have to buy some tuned cable to straighten this out as the speaker should synergize with the rest of your system without tweaks.The new generation or new hobbyists seem to think that tweaks are integral to a good system balance when the opposite is actually true.All components should perform beautifully on there own/together.

Doggonit, Brucege1! Just like Mfkeleher, you forgot to add the clause "in my opinion."

I guess the more dogmatic one presents one's opinion, the easier it is to convince one's self that they speak fact rather than opinion.

But I will not be swayed by such dogmatism! A non-sensical statement remains non-sensical, no matter how dogmatic one is in their presentation. Dogmatically, speaking of course.

-IMO <---- see, that's not so hard.

In my opinion,Stehno;our generation has become petrified of speaking with authority.What then is the wisdom of experience (30 years in the hobby)for?It's o.k. to believe what you believe wholeheartedly and it's even more important to not care one whit who likes or doesn't like it.I am after all a taurus.Lord knows we need more honest straight hip shot voices squanking in this wilderness of hype.

Stehno - In my opinion, If you have to be told specifically that what I write is my opinion then you probably have to be told way too many other obvious things for a communication thread sufficient to your peculiar needs to be of any interest to those with engaged brains. I might have made it clear that blocking the port was tantamount to engaging in speaker redesign witch is less likely to result in a high fidelity experience than the repositioning I recommended, but even then I trust that the average reader, or even the below average reader would have been able to figure out that it still was my opinion

If you really think that clogging the port is a good way to attenuate bass, I whould be interested in reading of your experiences or reasoning in this area.