Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass?

Most people prefer Non tight bass, especially at first listen. It sells better even though it's less accurate. That's one of the reasons bass reflex bass loading has taken over from closed box. Reflex loading has fuller , richer sounding bass but it is less accurate. Reflex loading can NEVER be as tight and accurate as closed box when closed box is designed for tight bass.

Why not look at the Focal Sopra-2,  I thought it would be bright - wrong it is coherent top to bottom , check it out and the reviews and very efficient.

So, the McIntosh has a damping factor of 40, and the Moon Audio has a damping factor of 800; hence, the difference in what you heard. I'll take the controlled, tight, more accurate bass of the Moon every time. Enjoy!

So I understand this correctly, the tight  bass is the more accurate bass?

The world changed 15 years ago when main speakers began reducing the size of bass drivers.

I think humanity is suffering because of this.

Now all the modern day components have to deal with this issue but they couldn’t so now everybody has to buy large subs to address this deficient issue main speakers now have with smaller bass drivers.

So people wanted main speakers that looked better in living rooms because they were thinner. But this didn’t work out too well did it because sound systems now have to use a pair of subs and that creates problems when it comes to floor real estate.

I like somewhere between tight and non-tight. All about comfortable listening and migrating away from precise monitor like speakers.