Irving Fried had about the best handle on bass of any designer I know. All of his designs had great bass to my ears, including his smaller boxes with variations on aperiodic and/or resistive ports (a la Dynaco A 25).
I built a set of his H2s with the KEF 8" woofers in the single bend 4' long transmission line box in around 1977 and heard the best quality bass I had heard to that date.
Irving knew his stuff, I think. I also hold Dr. Poh Hsu in similar regard for similar reasons.