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What makes a speaker too big for a given room?

Aside from the visuals, of course. I've heard people refer to the idea of a speaker being appropriate (or not) for a given room.

Curious to hear people's thoughts as I have a small-ish space and want to upgrade this year.

Fripp1 (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-13-12

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01-13-12 In general the more drivers and the farther apart the driver ... Stanwal

01-13-12 Money. Polk432

01-13-12 What stanwall said. if you cant get far enough away, then yo ... Manitunc

01-13-12 It's obvious you guys have never been to japan !!!! tiny roo ... Tpreaves

01-13-12 Some explanations never make se.se to me, here is my questio ... Chadnliz

01-13-12 I have a question similar to the one posed by chadnliz. wh ... Rok2id

01-13-12 Chadnliz, what you're saying makes just about perfect sense ... Kbarkamian

01-13-12 Chadnliz and rok2id, one answer to your question is that if ... Learsfool

01-13-12 Learsfool: thanks. i was hoping that was the answer. Rok2id

01-14-12 i think monitors are also much easier to integrate into a s ... Tom6897

01-14-12 I would also think that big speakers in a small room take up ... Inna

01-14-12 Stanwal is correct regarding the distance between drivers re ... Rrog

01-14-12 A very large cabinet can become a problem in itself if the r ... Rrog

01-14-12 I am afraid that the entire room should be treated, and this ... Inna

01-14-12 Stanwal is right on. i own dyn c1's (monitor) with a sub but ... Xti16

01-14-12 My wife can tell you if a speaker is too big for a given roo ... Br3098

01-14-12 A speaker can be too large for a room for any of the reasons ... Martykl

01-14-12 My speakers have side firing woofers. how does this factor ... Rok2id

01-14-12 Your wife can tell this immediately because she knows when s ... Inna

01-15-12 So, rrog, "whether the room will allow the bass to deve ... Fripp1

01-15-12 Full range speakers with no adjustment for bass loudness in ... Sarcher30

01-15-12 since it seems that many people are a bit confused about th ... Nvp

01-15-12 Wow thats a tough on dude!! Ebm

01-16-12 Fwiw, i have a pair of dali helicon 400's in a smallish room ... Sabocat59

01-17-12 Poor design. for if the loudspeaker is large but designed to ... Johnk

01-18-12 Good points johnk. how many speaker manufacturers actually ... Sarcher30

01-18-12 My guess would be woofers that create to much bass energy(ai ... Rleff

01-18-12 Seems to me that the point of the exercise is to maximize th ... Paulsax

01-18-12 Manufacturers should not only know the dimensions of your li ... Wolf_garcia

01-25-12: Zuio
big speaker vs small speaker

less imaging performance, slower bass, less life and poor low volume performance due to larger drivers
Zuio (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-29-12 Larger loudspeakers do not have in general slower bass,less ... Johnk

01-29-12 Good question. drivers are too far apart to sound coherent ... Mapman