As I currently have a post about looking at New or Used speakers,it's interesting this post came up. I had a small second room set up 13x13" give or take and a pair of Aria948 Focals, with nice electronics. Too much bass, no matter what I tried. I eventually spoke with FRITZ, and bought a pair of Bookshelfs, Fritz Carbon 7's SE model, and have been floored by the Sound!! (Complimented by SVS SB 3000 sub) WHAT a difference, one of the posts I think addressed this. Clarity, punch, so revealing and impactful, compared to the Focals. I'm sure most of it was room related. Just adding my 2 cents. Thanks for the above posts. Robert TN
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?