I really would strongly reccommend against the Schroeders. Let me first say that Jorg is one of the nicest people in the business, but his products are simply not even in the same hemisphere as Jim Bergantino's. Speaking to the "angled" cabinets, there is definitely something happening sonically which seems to either increase midrange dispersion or otherwise create a "midrange hump" which gives the perception of greater amplitude (volume) in much the same was as an Ampeg Fridge sounds louder or punchier. The Front-firing cabs from Schroeder are just as they seem.
Jorg uses really expensive, high-sensistivity drivers from a variety of manufacturers. The drivers in his cabs are always top-notch. However, the actual construction techniques and materials in his newer cabinets are so poor I would not ever recommend them to anyone who planned on ever moving them. I had a pair brand new Schroeder 212's in my living room just yesterday. I removed the handles and backplate to reveal a pair of B&C drivers and a homebrew xover which, looking at the ratings on the components, is likely to fail over time given the power ratings of the speakers and the likely amp power its going to be dealing with. The striking thing was total lack of any kind of internal bracing whatsoever. No front to back bracing, no joint bracing, nothing. Just an empty box with two speakers, a tweeter, a crossover and sheets of 1/8th inch carpet padding as "acoustic damping" material. Despite the cabinets being brand new, all 8 plastic corners were already broken, as they were secured directly to the very irregular surface of the truckbed lining the cabs are sold with. The grille was the kind of chicken-wire stuff you buy off a roll by the square yard at home depot. All this was offset by seemingly thoughtful features like a very fine felt covering the mounting surface of the handles and drivers to prevent air leaks.
The ports are just corners cut out of the speaker baffle, without much thought to what kind of porting (slot, shelf, tubular) would be appropriate for the drivers and internal volume of the enclosure. In lieu of very nice drivers, there was clearly no thought to engineering the cabinet to perform uniformly across a wide amplitude range, or to accurately reproduce a given signal. Nice speakers, a really REALLY poorly made box. The end result was a cabinet that sounded very nice at low volumes, rattled and vibrated all to hell at higher volumes and suffered severe bass and and hi-mid rolloff the louder it got, likely as a result of the one-size-fits-all porting scheme. At higher volumes with the tone knob of a J-Bass rolled off, there was an odd "chuffing" effect coming from the ports.
In contrast, Bergantino cabinets are Highly engineered pieces of equipment. All of them are port-tuned, chamber-tested and built with very well thought out internal bracing and stiff construction. They are also universally regarded as some of the best, if not THE best bass enclosures available for money.
Plenty of people will say "if it sounds good, it is good", and the Schoeders do sound good at low volumes, but this addage is just not true when you have an enclosure which has odd resonances and rattles, sounds very different at higher amplitudes, and is likely to shatter into a million pieces if dropped due to poor construction and total lack of internal bracing of any kind.
My $0.02 after owning and touring with probably 40 or 50 different enclosures over the last 15 years.
