|   bookshelves vs floorstanders - one more question | jarek
Jul 24, 2002 6:09 AM | | There have been some discussion here about monitors vs floorstanders, about their advanteges and disadvantages and about their ability to produce bass, recently.
However, nobody wrote about correlations between sizes of speakers and room and bass volume.
Let me translate to you a table which I found:
room size - how this sound
<8sq.m
minimonitor - perfect
monitor - OK, strong bass
floorstand version of monitor - badly (too huge bass)
large floorstanders (2,5 or more way ported)- badly
8-12 sq m
mM - so so (less bass)
M - perfect
F - OK (strong bass)
lF - badly (too huge...)
12-18 sq m
mM - no bass
M - so so (less bass)
F - Perfect
lF - OK (strong bass)
18-25 sq m
M - no bass
F - perfect
lF - perfect
more than 25 sq m
F - so so (less bass)
lF - perfect
Is it obvious and this is the reason that you didn't wrote about it? Is it crap? Any opinions? |
| I think it is crap. | A
Jul 24, 2002 9:05 AM | | With a larger room, you will typically need a speaker that can move more air to fill the room with sound. So you will typically need a larger speaker for this (though you cannot judge these things by size alone, and this is very important to remember). However, this does NOT mean that there is anything wrong with putting a very capable speaker in a small room. If you wanted, say, a solid 20 Hz in your room, you may need quite large speakers to get this even in a small room (though getting a subwoofer is probably the way to go no matter what size the room is).
To answer your question another way, you should judge speakers not by their size, but by their performance. For the same volume in a larger room (all else being equal, which is never the case), the maximum SPL (sound pressure level) of the speaker will need to be higher than it will need to be for a small room. But there is nothing wrong with having a speaker that is capable of a higher SPL than what you need for your room, so there is nothing wrong with putting 'big' speakers in a small room (unless, of course, you don't have the physical space to make them fit; refrigerator sized speakers in a typical closet is a physical impossibility).
Small speakers are typically easier to locate in a good place in one's home, and putting speakers in a good location is very important for the sound. |
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