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What makes speaker's sound big?

Does a speaker need to have many drivers or a large driver area to sound big and fill the room?
I am asking this question because I have a pair of tekton design double impact and would like to replace them with smaller speakers and a pair of subwoofer's to better integrate the bass into my room.
I just borrowed a set of B&W 702S. The are good but the just don't make that floor to ceiling sound that I like.
Maybe I have already answered my own question (: But again I have not heard all the speakers out there.
My room measure 15x19' and the ceiling goes from 7.5 to 12.8'

martin-andersen

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cakyol
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There is ONE major and many smaller minor factors which affect the size of the sound.

That major factor is how much volume of air (not surface area), the speaker moves per unit time.  That is pretty much it.

The minor factors are just too many to count & explain and they are mostly the icing on the cake.
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