I'm curious as to in what way you perceive it different/better? WRT 'deaf', how 'deaf'? I mean I'm trying to get a 'feel' for how us older folks into HE HIFI/HT perceive subtleties. The few folks I know around my age either are satisfied with whatever comes out of their stereo TVs, car radios, phones and/or wear hearing aids, so no help there.

My comparison of the two was only at the time the 846B first arrived at the distributor, so obviously had much younger ears and it was enough of an improvement in controlling the woofer at high power that it convinced me ducted port was the way to go when practical. The first 500 Hz 'clones' I built were owned by a Ga.Tech student and I remember them filling an outdoor frat party with a far more balanced, smoother, bass line than their EQ'd A7s.

GM