Can speakers be too big for a room?

As long as you are capable of sitting far enough away from the speakers to let the drivers in a speaker sum properly, the room size and speaker size is unrelated.

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BenniMac said: Hello all

I have some lovely standmount speakers but am considering some floorstanders.

I’ll be moving to a bigger place the end of next year so I know they’ll be fine there but how much of a problem will they be in a smaller space until then? I fully appreciate you have to match the speaker size and type to the room and if I was staying I would just stick with stand mounters, but what are the likely issues of putting large speakers into a smaller space? I don’t listen loud to be honest so will not be blasting them. Room dimensions: 3.5m x 5m. Speakers would need to be on the 3.5m wall (about 1 metre from said wall). Ceilings are 3.3m.

Speakers are Revel 228be

I know the obvious answer is buy some floor standers when I move but it’s a complicated situation which will be of no interest to anyone here.

All opinions on what I could expect welcome. Click to expand...

The problem with big speakers is that they are a waste in a small room. When you buy big speakers you expect high spl levels usually with a lot of bass coming out of it. In a small room is almost impossible to see big speakers shine.The other thing I'd like to say, since you didn't buy your new speakers yet, is that the 2.1 or 2.2 configuration is much more versatile than two big floorstanders. The small 5,25 or 6,5' driver from a bookshelf is powerful enough to give you a lot of sound above 100 Hz and one or two big subwoofers are going to give you much more solid bass than towers could give you. There-is no comparison between the bass output you get from a 12" sub and the one you get from a floorstanding, even the 2x8" ones. On the other hand, the small drivers you see on the bookshelfs are great to reproduce low mid and mid.Another advantage of 2.1 or 2.2 configuration is the flexibility to place your speakers and align them in your place to deal with your room acoustics. You will have phase adjustment in your subwoofer to helps you with that either.

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