Ported versus sealed speakers: is one type better?

Here are the T&S parameters needed for the ideal ported enclosure, if you think you can just throw a sock in the port and have a sealed (IB) enclosure to suit the same driver, your nutz.
http://www.woofertester.com/images/wt2_tsparameters.gif.
But to me if "big enough" with driver "that suits" an IB box, then you have a "better lower tighter bass"

Nevile Thiel (rip) helped me make two huge 12cu.ft ported enclosures (about the size of two large fridges) for two very rare massive Kef B1814 (flat diaphragm pis-tonic motion) f/s 20hz drivers I had.
These bass units got used from 100hz-18hz flat. While serving me very well with Accustat 2+2’s as mains, those huge bass bins were shamed a few years later by the majestic ACI SV12 f/s 17hz drivers in sealed IB enclosures 100-20hz, the speed and the concussion into the kidney region couldn’t be match by those ported boxes .

Cheers George

A lot of c**p being sprayed around here.
Drivers have a huge amount of specs and have preference for one or the other enclosures if built correctly.
To say to plug a port on a ported enclosure and believe the same driver is still in now an ideal sealed enclosure is BS, and then there’s the stuffing that comes into it.

In my first post, Nevile Thiel (rip) has said the correct thing.
Also he said to those that don’t know, to get a the same depth of lows that a ported box has from a sealed enclosure, size is greatly increased, and I’ll add, sealed also tighter/dryer and less colored when done right.

Cheers George

Nevile Thiel (rip) once said to me.
You get an extra octave of low frequency with ported designs, but it’s at the expense of a little coloration, port noise, and I believe also bass tightness and speed, compared to very good infinite baffle designs.

Cheers George