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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Ketan Bharadia

An ode to big speakers: why size matters (and science agrees)

Fyne Audio Vintage Classic X speakers in our test rooms

Ask most people to describe their perfect speakers and I’m pretty sure the vast majority would say something along the lines of "small, discreet but still great sounding". Would these people also like lots of bass? I have no doubt that they would.  

This is the ideal that many speaker designers have chased over the last few decades, giving us a slew of ultra-slim floorstanders, stereo sub/sat systems and small high-end standmounters that all seem to produce huge amounts of bass for their size.

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