Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Small room - speaker choice?

Im going to make a potentially stupid onservation...

If all speakers are calibrated identically, surely, at the sound levels that can be achieved by all speakers, then no one speaker is going to be more over powering than another. ie a DSP8000 played at 65 is going to be as loud as a DSP33 played at 65.

I appreciate that some speakers will have different constructions which may affect placement, ie rear ported, side firing etc and some will go deeper than others, but surely, for normal music listening conditions (I listen at 40-70 on the Meridian scale), I'm not going to get blown out of the room nor be subject to overwhelming bass because its simply not there in the original material. Where the bigger speakers win is by their ability to do things more gracefully with less effort and with a internal volume that allows them to convey the subtleties in the music by being acoustically more similar to the instruments that they are trying to reproduce.

I can see things will be different as you pump up the volume, where lesser speakers won't keep up with their bigger brother, but I'm talking about what 99% of us listen music to, 99% of the time.