Not aimed at you, but the membership in general. It is common that people start thread stating that they prefer one size of speakers over another, or that difference sizes in general sound different (smaller speakers sound tight, larger speaker sound deeper, etc.). Then they are excoriated and bombarded with comments about how the size of the driver makes no difference as to sound.
Very true and find it frustrating and annoying and don't like the behavior or approach of many. Often times I've posted opinions and facts and get hammered or discredited as being wrong. But many just repeat and agree to my facts. But completely reword it making me look wrong or discredit me. So I show empathy and understanding to your statement
Cause without getting to long winded post. its absolutely related to statements about many variables. But yes likewise yes, the size of the speaker can have a huge impact on the sound. And has alot to do with efficiency and bandwidth. And yes its absolutely obvious that larger speakers are very much capable of producing more bass and smaller speakers more highend.
And I don't like it either when many make claims the size doesn't matter. When yes we as players in the real world have observed it absolutely does. And don't wanna be told that our ears and brains are wrong lol. That's for sure. Cause we know we have observed a legit phenomena.
And yes when people start talking about clarity, fast response, punch or accuracy.
Has alot to do with transient response. And frequency range. So yes understanding a large transient can be a sudden change in amplitude or volume. And transients can be a sudden change in frequency from high to low.
So yes absolutely not only can a smaller speaker have more frequency response in the upper range of a instrument. Which would be very pleasing and preffered by a acoustic player.
Smaller speakers can definetaly be "faster" or basically reproduce transients from amplitude and frequency changes in certain frequencies much better than larger speaker can.
And the annoying arguments or corrections that come about come from many reasons. Some people have egos and wanna through their technical weight around. Others just don't understand cause technically on paper or little graphs on computers that doesn't happen.
But yeah in the real world our ears and expierence tell us. I've expierenced this phenomena and nobody is gonna tell me it didn't happen lol.
But for the most part addressing why the op likes smaller speakers is yes.
Smaller speakers can produce more highs and midrange and is pleasing for reproduction of timbre rich acoustic instrument. And also yes smaller speakers can't reproduce deep lows and the speaker/enclusure has a high pass response. Which is non issue with most acoustic players. Cause a majority of them use high pass filters to eliminate more than one variables low frequency can have. So yes just enough bass to be considered...."bass"
and the limited bandwidth of the bass being produced can also have excellent transient response and does not have smearing or muddyness associated with larger speakers.
So yes smaller speakers reproduce the timbre of acoustic instruments better and also can have good transient response in the low end.
