Can you have too much speaker presence?


My dealer says I’d lose too much speaker presence if I went to a smaller speaker. I’m not posting the speaker in question solely because I don’t want this to become an attack on them. I get it, presence means there and in the area, but can too much become and issue, especially when it is centered in a specific frequency range? 

 

hiendmmoe

"My dealer says I’d lose too much speaker presence if I went to a smaller speaker."

Translation:

"My dealer says he’d lose too much commission if I went to a smaller speaker."

@ Tony1954 - the smaller speakers are actually quite a bit more expensive! 
Sarcasm only works when you know all the facts:)

Sound wise, stage presentation, YES! I prefer the original room acoustics.of the recording. Not the players in my room.

FWIW when I have seen the word 'presence' it has been referring to the mid/upper mid range. I agree with Soix. But I would opine that your dealer was telling you these speakers would just be too small in your large (enuf) room, something you could cure with good well set up sub woofers. Another WAG though. :-)

You can have speakers that are too large for your venue. You can overload bass and end up having to do all sorts of elaborate treatments to make them sound right.

 

In the other end of the spectrum you can have tiny speakers and a sub and really loose the scale. 
 

While I never heard of the term speaker presence… I get the gist. Sure.