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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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This is a not so well defined criteria. Some call the soundstage size an expression of BIG sound and some consider bass extension the criteria for BIG sound.
 A truly big soundstage comes from speakers with very low distortion artifacts and minimal diffraction effects. Diffraction and distortion effects are non consonant and detract from the soundstage scale. Low distortion bass extension is well understood.
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