Industry Consensus on mixing sealed and ported SUBWOOFEERS

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[@HiFinest343]

This is great, thank you! Do you think you can run through the bass optimization of full range ported mains, combined with sealed subs? I can’t figure out how to optimize delay/phase, even using wavelets. I was intrigued by this idea from your AV10 review with Gene using MultEQ X for his Perlisten/JL system. Thanks!

[@MikeYoungeasytravel]

Hi Matt, thanks for this video. I have a question regarding this topic. What about mixing a ported sub (port tuned to 19 hz) with a pair of sealed kick subs (high passed to 30ish hz)? The idea is that I would be able to even out some of my room nulls (all above 38 hz) while still being able to hit a 16hz in room response with my ported sub. Thanks in advance.

[@miscreant1739]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts here and in past videos about this topic. It led me to choose all sealed speakers and 4 24” high excursion sealed subs to avoid all the issues. My previous ported subs really frustrated me. It wouldn’t happen often in real content but when it did I couldn’t get it out of my head. Since I went all sealed I have plenty of output and haven’t heard any offensive noises. Also I had a brief conversation with Geoffrey about his speakers and he was saying his ported speakers would cause less sub integration issues than sealed - I didn’t really believe it or understand why he was saying that though. His points as I recall were that a ported speaker would be EASIER to phase align with subs and the speakers wouldn’t excite room modes as much as a sealed speaker. He’s the expert, not me, but I am still skeptical.

[@tonyb3350]

What would be the ideal material to plug the port? Is there a product out there specifically for that purpose?

[@joekool5676]

So should all ported speakers have their ports plugged if using sealed subwoofer