I recommend you watch Eric Alexander's video on this subject. He agrees with me, the whole small room/small speaker thing is bogus.
Bass frequencies are very long wavelength, so long that every room is small relative to a 50+ foot bass wave. So every room will have bass resonance problems. Big speakers with more bass output might seem to be worse, but really not, it is the room, and you can prove this as I have done by isolating the speakers on Townshend Podiums. This excites the room less and alleviates a lot of bass problems everyone will have you believe can only be handled with tube traps.
A much better approach to speaker selection is to start with number one, you do not want anything less than 92dB sensitivity. Number two, how loud do they need to play? #1 and #2 filter the field down to where you can select from what is left those that have the sound you want and the price you can afford. Size is never a factor, not in terms of sound anyway. WAF, bragging rights, different story.
Bass frequencies are very long wavelength, so long that every room is small relative to a 50+ foot bass wave. So every room will have bass resonance problems. Big speakers with more bass output might seem to be worse, but really not, it is the room, and you can prove this as I have done by isolating the speakers on Townshend Podiums. This excites the room less and alleviates a lot of bass problems everyone will have you believe can only be handled with tube traps.
A much better approach to speaker selection is to start with number one, you do not want anything less than 92dB sensitivity. Number two, how loud do they need to play? #1 and #2 filter the field down to where you can select from what is left those that have the sound you want and the price you can afford. Size is never a factor, not in terms of sound anyway. WAF, bragging rights, different story.