Have you moved away from full range to standmount speakers + subs?

My experience has been that you have to give the room what it wants for best results. With bigger rooms that offer listening distances ~10 ft. or more from ear to tweeter, the best fit is usually full-range towers or designs of similar scale. In smaller rooms, with listening distances significantly under 10 ft., it's difficult to get proper integration of the drivers in a big multi-way loudspeaker, giving smaller speakers the advantage on integration…and some of that may translate to improved imaging. Perhaps, this is where the "myth" comes from…

Cabinet resonances are easier (less expensive) to tame in small speakers, so that can be a factor when comparing monitors and towers in the same line, especially at lower price-points. With proper attention, resonances can be adequately addressed regardless of speaker size.

I do think proper subwoofer integration is beneficial regardless of the main loudspeaker's bandwidth because the best placement for soundstage and imaging is rarely also the best place for low and sub bass wave launch. The ability to optimize these concerns independently is advantageous to achieving the best setup.

Personally, I had a pair of Legacy Audio FOCUS SE towers in a 19 x 21 ft room with a 10 ft ceiling. They worked very well there, but when I moved from the east to west coast (USA), I could not afford a listening room of that size. Cramming them into the new 15.5 x 10.1 ft room with 8 ft ceiling simply did not work, no matter what I did with room treatments. I could not get my ears far enough away from those six drivers for them to seamlessly integrate. Wonderful speakers, but they sounded like stadium speakers in my small room compared to a good 2-way monitor, like the Fritz Carrera 7 BE.

Again, lesson learned…give the room what it wants, and it will treat you right.

Years ago I had very large floorstanders w/strong integrated subwoofers (Vandersteen 4s). In an average size living room, this was a heavenly sound. I'm not sure I would mess w/standmounted 2-ways + subs in a living room of reasonable size. In my experience, that's a job for floorstanders + subs.

But in a 13' x 13' home office, where my audio gear is now--that's another matter altogether. Floorstanders couldn't fit here, but 2-ways can fit on the desktop. Currently they're vintage KEF 103.2s supplemented by one sub (JL Audio e110). Within the space limits of this environment, the sound is very satisfying--though 2-ways, even sealed/acoustic suspensions like the KEFs, trade off air & soundstage when situated on a desktop near the front wall.

Blkwrxwagn....Thanks for not helping...You can't answer it because your a neophite and don't know the answer....I pity your SO....way to much hatred and negativity to be on here.

QUESTION: I have the Tekton Pendragons and love them....Why does Tekton push the 4 ohm option when ordering.. I would not buy them in 4 ohm...Mine are 8 ohm for easier amp matching...Is 4 ohm cheaper than 8 ohm to produce. Eric also make them in 2 ohm...Whats up with that....

Eric Alexander explains 4 ohm vs 8 ohm speaker decision.

(15 second web search.)

Thank you tvad for helping...That's more than the complainers can do.