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Room size.

I often see folks recommending speakers (or discouraging) certain speakers based on size of the listeners room.  While I have a good idea what would be considered a small room (both length and width no more than 15 ft), I am uncertain on the drawing line between a medium/moderate room and a large room.  Would a 15 x 20 ft be considered medium, and 20 x 25 a large? Disregarding room height for now. 
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@mahgister  I have deleted my post. Clearly, I was out of line. Apologies.
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In my own case, height proved very important, as my ceilings are low (6.5 feet). Otherwise, my space is 14 ft. by 28 ft. with a hallway connected.

A low ceiling meant that tower speakers weren’t possible. I tried several, all with different tweeter technologies. All were impossibly bright, no matter what I did. Stand mounts were what I had to do, on lower than average speaker stands.

MC mentions Townshend podiums as a method which "alleviates a lot of bass problems everyone will have you believe can only be handled with tube traps." He didn’t mention he has a distributed bass array. That’s a big part of his bass solution, but I am not sure if your room size would be amenable to a DBA. If that is true, I suspect that the podiums won’t be enough to obviate bass traps. (MC, can a small room handle a DBA? If not, won’t he need some bass traps along with the special podiums?)
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