Room size.

I actually posted the original question not because I need to 'fix' anything at home, or wondering what speakers would be best for my room, but rather as a general question/comment on seeing lots of posts recommending, or not, speakers on the basis of room size, with the later being somewhat ambiguously described, which could be confusing for folks just entering the 'audiophile'.

You were right ,it is an interesting question indeed...

 Thanks for the thread...

I deleted mine...

We must forgot this...

And discussing friendly...

I apologize myself if some of my posts were inappropriate for your liking in the past...

Thanks....

But i hope that you will understand that i will not always reduce the lenght of my post.... A bad habit of a non native english user....

😊

I suspect that the podiums won’t be enough to obviate bass traps

Use some discarded tubes and pipes, seal them with plastic sheet, try different volumes or/and heights, put some straws with some different leghts and diameters, ( cut the straw in diagonals to be able to insert one part into one another for variable lenght and also very minute diameter experiment) listening experiments are needed to fine tune... It takes me a month for my 32 tubes...But the result is totally without audible flaws and i control ALL aspect of acoustics: imaging, soundstage, listener envelopment and trimbre perception...
 
It is the beginning of my " Helmholtz mechanical equalizer": cost nothing...Just fun to deal with the listening experiments.... Trust yourself....

My bass is clear, touch my chest and i own only 7 inches driver able tough  to fill my room with a brass orchestra with a tuba... 13 feet by 13 feet 81/2 feet high...

No need for a sub , i own one and it is disconnected for ever.... 😊 And i like bass...

I dont listen cinema and plane coming down for sure....But the note of the tuba are all there....

My bass is marvellous....

Vibrations devices can clear the bass NEVER  increase it in the room..... I know, i own my own springs devices system .... No cost also...

Science gives more money than it ask for..... 😊 The opposite of many tweaks....Replicate them or create them....

Like everything in audio, there is seldom a rule that does not have exceptions.

You are right about the relation between room and speakers size...

But no one can work mocking acoustical or psychoacoustical law.... We must work with them....No choice here....

13 X 13 feet 8 1/2 high...

All small room need to be controlled for the reverberation timing... 

Passive material treatment in balance between diffusive sbsorbing and reflective surfaces

ACTIVE treatment with 32 tubes and pipes fine tuned , my mechanical equalizer, take care of ALL resonance...

An electronical equalizer modify the reponse of the speakers to the room and then modify the original "voice" of the speaker for a position very restrictive in millimeter...you turn the head a few inches and all is lost...

My mechanical equalizer modify FOR MY EARS the response of the room to each of the speakers drivers in particular without modifying the response of the speakers themselves... Instead of finetuning with a mic and chosen frequencies, the finetuning is with large bandwith response of the room/ears with human voices timbre coming from the speakers.... And all position of listening in the room are then optimized not only the main listening position...

It need to be done in a dedicated audio room.... No wife will accept 32 tubes and pipes distributed around in his living room...

The result: my 500 bucks sytem is so good that any upgrade is cancelled till i die...

Acoustic and psychoacoustic are the key.... The rest is important for sure but means way less in S.Q. without total control of the room and plastic fluid adaptation of the room to the speakers...