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Does port location make a significant difference with regard to speaker placement?

Hi all, 

Pondering a speaker upgrade this fall, and with Axpona cancelled I am just going to head out and shop.  If I'm trying to "fix" anything with my current setup it might be some bass muddiness on certain tracks.  I could turn the Loudness off but why, LOL.....

Anyways, as I look for speakers am I expecting too much to say that moving from a rear ported speaker to a front/bottom ported speaker would be worth the effort to clean this up?  My speakers have decent proximity from walls and corners, but suspect I'm not perfect here.  I've also played with absorption behind speakers with some success, some failures.  

So looking for first hand experience in changing speakers and port locations, and the impact on sound, considering same speaker placement.  

Thanks in advance.  

EW
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mtbiker29 OP
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Thanks everyone for the feedback.  Let me answer some of the questions posed here:  
@erik_squires yes I'm going to try the foam port plugs and should have sooner.  The reason I didn't is I had a friend of a friend who really knew his stuff come by my old house years ago and Sumiko the *&^% out of my system.  The results were awesome but he definitely frowned on the plugs.  
@noromance Loudness is a guilty pleasure, I recognize it would contribute to the phenomena in question and I do turn it off if needed.  Gear and a pic are listed in my virtual system, figured most would click it to see.  

Also, big picture I did stop by one dealer yesterday and listen to a few things I thought would be of interest.  Suffice it to say I was underwhelmed and I'm back to optimizing what i have, which is very good, but as we all know could be a bit better!  
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@classdstreamer good questions and thanks for the compliment.  
1) Sub is not in the 2 channel mix currently - that's a future tweak, moreso when I step up to a nice REL or ??
2) Since pic was taken I've added Gaia 1's
3) Haven't tried plugging the port but that's on the agenda for tonight.  
4) I hear you on upgrade, but will say I listened to a $12K set of speakers the other day and was thinking system to system they were no beter than what I had....these do punch way above their weight class.  So far the only speaker that really wowed me as a clear upgrade was the Focal Sopra 2, which size wise might be an issue.  

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