Can you have too much speaker presence?

I’m assuming he means the smaller speakers won’t output enough for your listening area, thereby losing ’presence’?

And vis-a-vis speakers too big for a room would ’overwhelm’ it, thereby overpowering it with too much presence.

That’s why it’s so important to match speaker size to room size.

Or, is he trying to tell you he’s of the opinion that small speakers suck...

Tell him to knock off being audiocryptic and spell it out!

I know that’s not a word (yet) but it darn well should be!!

You just made it a word, now submit it to the Webster people. 🤔

My dealer says I’d lose too much speaker presence if I went to a smaller speaker…

but can too much become and issue, especially when it is centered in a specific frequency range?

Lose too much “speaker presence?” Seriously??? Can’t believe a dealer even used that term. If any frequency range is being emphasized (or de emphasized) it’s a problem. Depends on how big your room is, room treatments, speaker/seating position, ancillary equipment, etc., etc. Too many variables here for any of us to give you any meaningful help, and we’re just throwing darts at a board blindfolded here. Share more info and you’ll get some meaningful help/advice here. Keep everything secret and all you’ll get are largely random guesses. Up to you chief. I will say that, depending on room size, sometimes going with monitors and two subs can be preferable to towers for several reasons, but as we basically know nothing it’s impossible to say if that’s something to consider here or not.

"My dealer says I’d lose too much speaker presence if I went to a smaller speaker."

Translation:

"My dealer says he’d lose too much commission if I went to a smaller speaker."