How Does a Subwoofer Port Work? This speaker enclosure has a hole it, and that hole makes better bass. How can putting a hole in your speaker box make better bass? Keep reading to find out! This website contains affiliate links* Ports look very simple. They are nothing more than tubes or slots built into your enclosure . But they are actually quite complex. There are also a lot of misconceptions about ports and how they work. To those completely unfamiliar with subwoofers they look like a terrible idea. When the driver pushes out would it not suck air in, and thus the sound back into the enclosure? While those who are slightly more familiar with subwoofers, in an excellent example of the Dunning Kruger Effect , will argue that when the speaker moves inward the air in the box, and thus sound, sound comes out of the port. Thus taking advantage of both the backward and forward movements of the subwoofer. Both of these ideas use the same logic to reach opposite conclus
