Does the speaker port limits the woofer excursion?


Somewhere I read that the speaker port limits the x-max movement of a woofer. Is this true? If so can one feed a lot of power to a speaker without any risk of damaging the woofer? Any comments?
tiofelon

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Manitune is correct. The idea of a port is to relieve the back pressure on the woofer and allow it to move farther than in a sealed box according to all the discussions I have read. Air rushes out of the box at the frequency the port is tuned to. This is the exact opposite of limiting woofer movement so far as I can tell.