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Can you have too much speaker presence?

My dealer says I’d lose too much speaker presence if I went to a smaller speaker. I’m not posting the speaker in question solely because I don’t want this to become an attack on them. I get it, presence means there and in the area, but can too much become and issue, especially when it is centered in a specific frequency range? 

 

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I was recently watching A British Audiophile’s youtube channel. He referred to the "presence region" as being between 2k - 4k.

 
I know what it is because the cross over point of my hybrid Akg K340 is the "presence" point of perceived sound for males voices slightly under and female voices slightly over 4000 hertz . The prsence points of any instruments differ... For human voices ,it is where the body incarnated Aura of the timbre sound of male and female voices are....
It is why i thought that the crossover point chosen by Dr Gorike creating his K340 was so right choice...
 
 
What frequency is presence in audio?
 
4 to 6 kHz
 
Summary Table
Frequency Range Frequency Values
Midrange 500 Hz to 2 kHz
Upper midrange 2 to 4 kHz
Presence 4 to 6 kHz
Brilliance 6 to 20 kHz
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