Lose weight or buy better fitting pants

You would design the speakers to fit the room, instead of fixing the room.

It’s another way of saying get the appropriate speakers to fit the size of the room, which I agree. Generally, small speakers for small rooms, large speakers for large rooms. However, that doesn’t work out that way all the time as mentioned by few people here. Some speaker designs allow close placement to wall boundaries while some designs require the speakers to be placed out of the room with considerable free space from the rear and side walls. With the former, large speakers may be able to fit smaller rooms with minimal ill-effect to the sound reproduction.

I have mid-sized monitors in a long and narrow room measuring 10.5’ x 20’ x 9’. All my speakers require space from the wall boundaries hence they are selected based on the size to fit the room. I have tried larger speakers in this room and they don’t sound as good as the smaller speaker.

...or just make the room one big enclosure, you enter the 'inside' of the 'cabinet'...

Seriously, all of us have their own formula for the space we're faced with.

It's what we've put within it drives all these forums for other formulas.

Obsessions' are like that... ;)

@jpwarren58 

Sorry JP.  Makes no sense at all, save not to put very large speakers in small rooms.

And a long narrow room with low ceilings is a corridor.  Or a railway carriage.

I have a pair of Wilson Maxx's in a 12x14 foot room and they sound great. Design wise, they have extremely well controlled bass. I've had smaller speakers in the room that were not as well balanced. It's taken a bit of work, including some room treatment to get them optimised. However, the room treatment has been focused on dealing with reflections - the room has needed no bass trapping. Ceteris paribus would the system sound better in a bigger room - yes. But while the answer to the question posed by jpwarren58 is no, every speaker/room combination needs to be considered uniquely.

Definitely no significant other problem in my listening room. She doesn't even have the keys to it 🙂

Life has never been better since I built this house of stereo. Man cave all the way. BIG speakers and room treatment galore. Southern comfort by Crusaders gave me goose pumps last evening.