Rear ports are good. You can probably combine the drivers in groups
and make chambers for each group to make the port design more
friendly, ie.. I build my budget array with four chambers, four
drivers per chamber, a 6" diameter rear port per chamber, 1 3/8"
port length. Turns out, the wood thickness of that rear wall is
1 3/8" so the port length = wood thickness so all I did was cut a
6" hole in the back of the cabinet and used a small roundover bit on
the edges. Obviously, this design is tuned higher in frequency. http://home.pacbell.net/lordpk/robarray/6.jpg