Since I had recently gotten a hold of a 2008 version of JTR's Growler, I have had a lot of requests to compare it to the EAW LA400 that I have owned for a while now. This has been for several reasons including that they are both 12" horn-loaded designs. They are both portable subs and decently smaller sized. It would be a good thing to note, right now, though that the Growler is almost exaclty half the cubic size of the LA400, so that Growler is in fact a very good amount smaller in size and weights 27 lbs. lighter. (I was actually able to load the Growler into my Suburban, decently easy, when loading out by myself. Something that I don't plan to keep doing as I want to save my back!)