What is would be a small listening room size?


What would be a small listening room? Medium size?

If my room (dedicated) is 12 (w) x 17 (l) x 7.5 (h) (feet), is this considered a small size room?
acadie
Your room is comparable in size to mine. (around 14X19X8)
I consider our rooms small. Better suited for small to medium floorstanders.
Here's a concrete example:

My old speakers, North Creek Eska's, were a slender MTM mini tower designed for near wall placement small to medium rooms. They were housed in 13x13x9h room, open on two sides, and worked very well.

I've moved, and the room is 14x20x8.5h, pretty open on two sides; the Eskas, lovely as they are, pretty clearly lacked presence in this space. I replaced them with some fairly large (150 lbs, 53"h, 2 8" woofs) Montana EPS2s, which work very well. In fact, I think the room could handle larger speakers that move more air.

So based on my experience, the OPs room, of pretty similar size to mine, counts as a medium room that does not limit him to small speakers (depending of course on factors like the desired distance from boundaries.

YMMV, of course. Interesting that there are divergent strongly held opinions on this issue.

John
WHAT F'INFG DIFFERENCE DOES OTHER'S RESONSES MAKE?

What is the objective of your question?

My room is (small), however the recreation of the recorded event is HUGE.

That is all that matters.

Do other's opinions have so much of an influence upon you that you will make a major change to your system?

Get real!!!
Get real!!!

Huh?

IMO, OP has a legitimate question, Slaw.

For example, discussions of speakers/amplification and often reference room size, so good to know what people have in mind.

John