Wes_in_VA
Super Member
I'd like to hear about other people's experiences with big speakers in a small room.
I've always been afraid of the concept. My listening room is 11'x12' so I've stayed with small speakers for the most part. I've had great luck with many of them and I think that small speakers of all kinds can be spectacular in many ways.
I recently traded my BIL for a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls. The original plan was that they'd go upstairs in my living room setup but the wife nixed that: not because of the Cornwalls, per se, but because she's not willing to let me get rid of the B&W Matrix 803's that are there now! God, I love her.
That's how the Cornwalls ended up in my tiny man cave room and how I know now this: big speakers in a small space can be fantastic.
For all the positives of small speakers, they still can't portray the sense of scale that large ones can, or at least the ones I've heard can't.
That's why I wanted to start this thread and see what other folks have experienced.
As for my setup: as I mentioned, the room is ~11'x12'. I sit about 6 1/2' away from the speakers, and they're about 8' apart. Though you can't see it, my room is pretty heavily treated so the acoustics are nice. Not perfect by any stretch, but nice.
Let's say that small is smaller than 160 sf is our starting point for room size. Speaker size??? Well, something around the size of Cornwalls....
I've always been afraid of the concept. My listening room is 11'x12' so I've stayed with small speakers for the most part. I've had great luck with many of them and I think that small speakers of all kinds can be spectacular in many ways.
I recently traded my BIL for a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls. The original plan was that they'd go upstairs in my living room setup but the wife nixed that: not because of the Cornwalls, per se, but because she's not willing to let me get rid of the B&W Matrix 803's that are there now! God, I love her.
That's how the Cornwalls ended up in my tiny man cave room and how I know now this: big speakers in a small space can be fantastic.
For all the positives of small speakers, they still can't portray the sense of scale that large ones can, or at least the ones I've heard can't.
That's why I wanted to start this thread and see what other folks have experienced.
As for my setup: as I mentioned, the room is ~11'x12'. I sit about 6 1/2' away from the speakers, and they're about 8' apart. Though you can't see it, my room is pretty heavily treated so the acoustics are nice. Not perfect by any stretch, but nice.
Let's say that small is smaller than 160 sf is our starting point for room size. Speaker size??? Well, something around the size of Cornwalls....
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