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Most of the music resides in the midrange, and that's where you want any speaker to really perform. The trick is to find a speaker that has that magic midrange and gives uncolored bass and treble as well. After years of upgrades, I have found that only a larger speaker will give all three. (Ya gotta have the right stuff feeding it, of course.) I now own the last speakers I will ever buy (my wife laughed at that)---Tannoy Churchills, if you're interested.

Speakers get bigger with bigger rooms. I guess I'm in a big-room phase.

I went from a set of Polk Audio SRS 1.2 speakers, which were 180lbs each at 5'3" to a smaller set of Von Sweikert Research VR-4 speakers, which weigh around 100 lbs and are about 4 feet tall.

small is good when it means less cabinet interference and vibration, but speakers still need to be big enough to move enough air to make bass in the room they are in. My 15x20 room, 8" woofers on alon 1's is plenty.

Bigger is definitely better if you like bass as much as I do. You can't get the same bass extension out of a 10" woofer as you can a 15". Larger speakers just seem to have more musical presence.

For overall balance, I think the results are much better with a larger sreaker than with smaller mini-monitors.However, with the integration of surround systems, the smaller speakers of higher quality will definately increase.

I like the sound and look of the tall sleek towers I have.

Much of the richness and body of live music is the result of three dimensional bass reproduction. Bass wave propagation which has a physical relationship to higher frequencies results in more musically coherent and natural sound reproduction. This is achieved more easily with physically "large" speakers. A realistic sense of scale is also better achieved with large wavefront propagation.

To me, what matters is if the speaker can reproduce sound down to 20hz without all the db drop.

Real bass and real dynamics can ONLY come from a BIG box. Period. Don't even try to argue.

Bigger means more bass. More bass is good if the rest of the frequency range is good.

My vote of 'Smaller' is in referece to performance. I have a relatively small room, and small speakers sound better. The one exception would be planar speakers. For them, bigger is somewhat better.

It isn't the size that counts it is the quality of the engineering and the parts used......bigger isn't always better.

Take the Revel Ultima Gem, for example. With the stands and the righ finish those speakers run $8,000.00. I rather like to get a pair of Dunlavy IV A for the same price. They'll go down to 20 and they don't need stands. (Most stands are ugly).

The question is way to general and imprecise...

Small bass drivers just can't do powerful bass. Obviously, it needs to be tight and articulate. My speakers are large but the just disappear. They are the Von Schweikert VR6's.

The main questions are : what can be consider as big ? For which kind of room ? I would say that bigger is better because the bigger they are the larger the bandwitdh reproduced can be but on the other hand, if your room is not sized to fit your speakers it can be worse than small ones at their best.