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RE: Big speakers + small room = Bad?

Fairly tight radiation pattern control well down into the midrange is arguably more beneficial in a small room than in a big room, as it allows you to aim the speakers so as to maximize the time interval before the onset of at least some of the early reflections. Ironically it is big speakers, not small speakers, that do the best job of this, assuming they are designed with radiation pattern control in mind, simply because a small speaker cannot effectively control the radiation pattern when the wavelengths become significantly longer than the speaker's width (cardioids excepted). In other words, if done correctly, I think a good big speaker can indeed outperform a good small speaker in a small room. And if your living space is crowded you can put your books and stuff on top of a big speaker, but not on top of a small one, so there is less net loss of usable horizontal surface space in the room with big speakers.

Duke


Me being a dealer makes you leery?? It gets worse... I'm a manufacturer too.

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