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Sorting out conflicting information
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You are gettign me into a bit of a rant...
When people try do describe sound quality with words... things will get twisted and become subjective/biased in a hurry.
Boom is excessive low end, mud is excessive low mids (in my mind)... but both can be caused by the room you are in and easilly fixed by the EQ (that is what it is there for... just because something doesn't sound flat when the EQ is flat, doesn't mean it is garbage... just means you may want to use the EQ... EQ is not evil).
You want the Best advice ever? Bring your amp and bass to the store and try the cab out yourself (heck, try as many different cabs as possible). Don't let others with their own personal preferences and biases jade your opinion of a product(s). You have an idea of what you want... no go try it out... hear it for yourself, then decide.
When people try do describe sound quality with words... things will get twisted and become subjective/biased in a hurry.
Boom is excessive low end, mud is excessive low mids (in my mind)... but both can be caused by the room you are in and easilly fixed by the EQ (that is what it is there for... just because something doesn't sound flat when the EQ is flat, doesn't mean it is garbage... just means you may want to use the EQ... EQ is not evil).
You want the Best advice ever? Bring your amp and bass to the store and try the cab out yourself (heck, try as many different cabs as possible). Don't let others with their own personal preferences and biases jade your opinion of a product(s). You have an idea of what you want... no go try it out... hear it for yourself, then decide.
plowboy said:
Ported cabs with increased low end responce is not a contradiction... they sound the way they sound. People's personal biased opinions of how much they like a specific cab's sound will always be a contradiction (and a personal preference).
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It's all about the individual cab in question and how well it is engineered and designed. There are great sounding, well-engineered versions of both sealed and ported cabs, and there are not so great sounding, not so well-engineered versions.
Go by how the net result sounds, as opposed to trying to follow a sweeping generalization.
Tom.
Go by how the net result sounds, as opposed to trying to follow a sweeping generalization.
Tom.
Agreed. The only real way to sort out conflicting information is to listen to the cab for yourself. One person's "mud" may be another persons ideal sound.
In addition to all that, there's the amp thats powering the cabinet, the bass thats being played, whats being played, how it's being played. In summation, try it out for yourself.
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They can, but they don't have to. It's all in how the cabinet is tuned. For every driver and box volume there are a myriad of possibilities, not to mention the permutations offered by different drivers and box sizes. Niche categorizing all ported or all sealed boxes is a vast oversimplification.plowboy said:
