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Well, you'll also need to consider that most people also aren't remotely like audiophiles at all. And although most of us here don't necessarily identify as audiophiles per se, we might as well be to the vast majority of consumers. Our priorities definitely aren't mainstream. Heck! My own...

Think about it another way. Even some truly high end audiophile speakers are apparently using some bit of porting nowadays, which had surprised me a bit... NVM the relatively lowly ELACs we'd been talking about earlier and liking. At the highest end, speaker makers do still seem to try to...

I'd say it's not really true that there should never be a need for ported subs... even at the higher end. It kinda depends... on the actual need. You can certainly generally get more bass from ported than sealed, but it does so at lower quality (to varying degrees). There's still a real...

I'd say SVS, in particular, would rather just give you the choice between their various options/offerings. Hsu (and their business model) probably just isn't nearly large enough to offer similarly wide array as SVS, so that may be why they basically only offer ported subs (so far) that can also...

Nobody here is suggesting to accuse them of being snake oil companies at all. It's nothing like that -- and yeah, we're definitely very aware of what you mean. And of course, we all have our own biases/prefs however great or slight... and sometimes, we might come across a bit too strongly w/...

Take it easy, Brian. That's not what John's insinuating. He's mainly pointing out a lot has changed and improved, especially w/ sealed sub tech/design, so what was true say 20 years ago when you first owned the Energy C-6's (and whatever else to go w/ that) does not apply today anymore...

Yeah, I'd go for the sealed sub as well... certainly in how the various SVS models/lines are as @JohnRice points out. Also, I don't think there's any need to make much of SVS's own proprietary EQ provided via their Pro lines. I'd think getting a good AVR/prepro w/ Dirac or Anthem's ARC or...

FWIW, if you're serious about the ELACs and might really want floorstanders, their current sale seems better than usual for those (whether the Debut or Uni-Fi 2.0s). Also, if interested, they've apparently put the "Reference" versions (of both) on sale as well, which I don't recall seeing on...