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'.

There's a lot of stuff audiophiles say that seems to serve no other purpose than to confuse new audiophiles. The size the speakers to the room myth is one. If the speakers fit and you like the way they look and sound then it really does not matter. You will have the same problems with the same sonic output regardless of the size of the speakers. 

Audiophiles will do their best to confuse you with impedance. If the speakers are high sensitivity- arbitrarily defined by me as greater than 92dB- then impedance simply becomes a non-issue. 

If you are into turntables, audiophiles will confuse you with, well pretty much all of it. 

Audiophiles will confuse you with watts and ohms. Impedance again! Watts don't matter, because since you never let yourself be confused by speaker impedance you bought 95dB speakers a handful of watts can drive easily and so watts don't matter! 

There are some things that are a little confusing. Audiophiles will confuse you even more about those! The biggest one is low bass, arbitrarily defined as below 80 Hz, is a whole different animal. From 80 Hz on down it hardly matters what you use, or where you put it. What matters is you have a lot of them. From 80 Hz on up everything but everything depends on precisely where you put them and that there are two and only two of them. Simple, clear- until audiophiles start explaining.  

Just you wait and see. Here they come to save the day, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I recommend you watch Eric Alexander's video on this subject. He agrees with me, the whole small room/small speaker thing is bogus. 

Bass frequencies are very long wavelength, so long that every room is small relative to a 50+ foot bass wave. So every room will have bass resonance problems. Big speakers with more bass output might seem to be worse, but really not, it is the room, and you can prove this as I have done by isolating the speakers on Townshend Podiums. This excites the room less and alleviates a lot of bass problems everyone will have you believe can only be handled with tube traps.

A much better approach to speaker selection is to start with number one, you do not want anything less than 92dB sensitivity. Number two, how loud do they need to play? #1 and #2 filter the field down to where you can select from what is left those that have the sound you want and the price you can afford. Size is never a factor, not in terms of sound anyway. WAF, bragging rights, different story.