My original C box I had tuned wet. Larry Miller advised against it. He said it would be hard to figure out tunes by ear if my box was wet tuned. He had a few other reasons I can't remember.

I took that box to Augusta with me. Sat in a class and started playing it wet tuned, and everyone turned and glared at me. I believe I pushed in one of the stops. A couple of years later I was at Augusta again. Someone came in and started playing a wet tuned box, and I couldn't hear what the instructor was trying to teach.

I also subsequently had my box tuned dry. And even though I'm playing zydeco now, dry works just fine.

I was at Savoy's shop, testing out an A box. I liked the box except for the tuning. Slightly wet. It felt harsh to my ears. He said he tunes the lower boxes like that because he feels they need it to cut through.

Couple points..

No pretense is made here of being an expert..
The "experts" are those that have been making boxes for generations...I listen to them and the results of their tuning, such as Beltrami.

There is NO SUCH THING as a "very dry tuned" accordeon.
Dry is dry,, it is unison.. anything else is a degree of wetness... be it 1 cent or 22 cents.

"defused" or diffused ?

Anthoer, and more important, point

So why ios it so darned important to be loud. Boxes by nature are loud. I go for tone.. TONE.
Tone is king. Need to be loud ? Get a mic.

Baux why do you find it necessary to post under so many different names. You must have posted under at least five different names in the last five days. Your for mitered corners and cheap boxes. You say you have 4 minutes of time but you take that time under so many different people its hard to believe what s h i t you have to say.