Plugging speaker ports...any harm?

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Just a question out of curiousity. Some speaker designs are sealed & others are ported. Now granted, the designer had specific goals in mind for their performance by choising one of the two designs. What is the real difference between the two? Does a ported speaker provide more bass than a sealed speaker? Does one design perform better than the other, & if you were to stuff the port holes how would it effect the speakers performance? Could that possible harm the speaker? I think it's all about moving air inside the cabinet.

Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm

As Dave Barry is wont to say, <I>The Singing Neanderthals</I> would be a good name for a rock band, but it's a book by cognitive archeologist Steven Mithen, arging that language and music evolved from a common ancestor. He calls that ur-communication "Hmmmmm" (holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical, and memetic).

Help with new setup

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Ok, so my knowledge is quite limited, much like my funds for this project. But...

I was recently given a Pioneer Elite VSX-80TXV Receiver. Seems like a decent receiver, i have it working with my Plasma connecting a PS3, Wii, and cable box with no issues.

However, it's running crap speakers that my roomate had from a HTIB. So i want to begin to build my own system, but i need to do it one step at a time.

Buzz Hum Problem

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Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some input to a slight problem I have been having? The other day I still noticed the very slightest kinda hum buzz going on in both of my channels. It can only be heard at all if the amp gains are past half way up. If you were not listening for it most people wouldn't hear it. I noticed it after playing my Nakamichi cd player, and switching over to my Harman Kardon CDR-26. The Nakamichi is dead silent. All I have to do is turn on the H/K and I get the noise! I don't even half to be on the H/K's input, just turn it on.

Loudspeaker which are best

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hey everyone im new to the audio scene. I am currently thinking of getting an integrated amp and two speakers which of the following do you think are best or other speaker pairs which are about 600 or less.
PSB Image B25
PSB Image 4T loudspeaker
NHT Classic Three loudspeaker
Polk lsi7
b&w 602 s3

also with these type speakers, should i get a preamp with the integrated?

New, Need help!

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Hey everyone, I am new to the scene and wanted some help in purchasing a receiver. I want to spend 500 - 600 or less. I have 4 wharfedale 8.1s , yamaha sub, and getting the wharfedale center. I dont know if I need a receiver, or preamp and poweramp. Plese let me know what you would do in my situation. Also some receivers I have looked at are the onkyo TX-SR504, marantz sr3001 and marantz sr4001, and yamaha rx-v659. Let me know about these and what you would do. Thanks

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