Can you have too much speaker presence?

@ Tony1954 - the smaller speakers are actually quite a bit more expensive! 
Sarcasm only works when you know all the facts:)

Sound wise, stage presentation, YES! I prefer the original room acoustics.of the recording. Not the players in my room.

FWIW when I have seen the word 'presence' it has been referring to the mid/upper mid range. I agree with Soix. But I would opine that your dealer was telling you these speakers would just be too small in your large (enuf) room, something you could cure with good well set up sub woofers. Another WAG though. :-)

You can have speakers that are too large for your venue. You can overload bass and end up having to do all sorts of elaborate treatments to make them sound right.

In the other end of the spectrum you can have tiny speakers and a sub and really loose the scale. 
 

While I never heard of the term speaker presence… I get the gist. Sure. 

Will the dealer allow you to take both the smaller and the larger speakers home and judge for yourself?

Your current speakers must be a pretty high hurdle for any speaker to surpass.