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Originally Posted by 2162
I was wondering if the bass and treble ports overpower and take away the mids, or is it just pure awesomeness with all three.
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The midrange stays pretty much the same ("awesome") with any of the port combos. When they claim that changing ports/tubes only affects what it is you're trying to change, they're not lying. When I got mine I played with the different bass ports until I found what I liked there and then played with treble tubes until I found what I liked there, at no point did I have to go back and "retune" anything because of some change I made.
Trick question
When you buy the SA6 they come with a full set of ports and tubes. Unless you lose them, the bass ports should last indefinitely, and the treble tubes will last until the filter material in them gets clogged enough to noticeably affect sound (i.e. depends on how nasty your ears are and how good you are at cleaning gunk before it reaches the filters). The $22 set is intended as a full replacement of all the same ports and tubes that come with a brand new set of SA6. Personally, I'm hoping they'll start selling the different +/- ports & tubes separately. I'm not interested in anything other than bass+/treble+, so needing to spend $12.50 for three pairs of tubes, two pairs of which I'll never use, seems an odd choice on their part. I get the impression they figured most people would approach the product more like a routinely tunable earphone instead of a "set it and forget it" - at least on this board, set it and forget seems to be the dominant approach. At any rate, no, I would not pay $22 for the whole set again unless I had to - much rather pay $25 for a 6 pack of bass+ ports and a 6 pack of treble+ tubes.