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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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toddalin
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Don't confuse "cubic inches" with "surface area" (i.e., "square inches") of cone movement.

While four 6" diameter woofers have the same "surface area" as a single 12" diameter woofer, it is extremely doubtful that each of these 6" woofers could "xmax" as far as the 12" woofer so they would not be able to move the same volume (i.e., "cubic inches") of air or attain the same maximum volume level.

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Peter, I was there.  Was impressive, but I get better imaging in my living room and this would be unnecessary overkill.

But I don't need to fill that much volume and only use two JBL 18"ers, not 12.

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...And then some.

https://youtu.be/iGa9259pz-I

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