@daveyf wrote:
If you don't believe in fitting your speakers to your listening room, size-wise, you clearly have never heard a speaker that is too large for said space. There are numerous examples of less experienced a'philes trying to shoe horn a too large speaker into their listening space.
I've heard my share of small, even very expensive such speakers sounding small, strained and much less than natural (to my ears) in a variety of listening spaces, more so than large speakers that were sonically hampered by being "shoehorned" into crammed listening rooms.
Which is the real, and bigger issue here, and to whom? I'd refer to my own moderately sized (i.e.: definitely not small, not very large either) listening space and physically all-out speaker setup as that which functions very well, the reasons for which I've tried to outline at more than one occasion.
To reiterate I'm generally no champion of large, multiway, low efficiency, full range-ish and passively configured speakers, because they can indeed be hell to integrate properly in most any space - for a variety of reasons - apart from not sounding right to my ears. My context of large speakers and how and why I find them to work well in a variety of spaces, you know by now, and that's my outset.