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There is no substitute for cubic inch or in this case surface area

After listening to quite a few speakers, my conclusion is that if you want large enveloping soundstage, you need a lot of drivers.  

I once had a speaker with two 12in. drivers and the soundstage is just floating in the air.  None of my other speakers could do that.

Currently I have a pair of Thiel CS2.4.  It is a very good speaker but with small drivers there is really limitation to what it can do in term of soundstage size.  I really miss that.

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My listening room is 20'x15' with wooden floors (with an 8x12 carpet) and windows. What I don't want are woofers that are so powerful they rattle my windows and shake my floors, adding bass distortions.

I have a pair of Sonus Faber Olympica Nova 5s with three 7" woofers that go down to 32 Hz. They are perfect for my room. I can feel the vibration on really low sounds and various percussion like tympani, sticks, and snare drums sound accurate. I can also hear placement and depth.

Prior to these I owned a pair of Golden Ear 2+ speakers. They had two 5" by 9" subwoofers and two 8"by 12" planar bass radiators. The bass was not nearly as accurate as my Sonus Fabers. I could turn the bass up and down, but if I turned it up too high my windows rattled and floor shaked. So, accurate with sound waves that are felt by my body is about as much bass as I want.

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