my opinion only... this whole question of picking a certain size or design of speaker based on room size is silly. unless you are in a booth or a cathedral all sorts of diff types, sizes may float your boat. nearly all spkrs should be a couple ft off the back wall at least but from there you are on your own. room treatment is gonna determine sound more than spkr size so get that part taken care of first or simulataneous with whatever spkr you end up with. 'too much bass' is a bunch of crap from a salesman. a flat response is always good and fix the room acoustics to correct reflections etc.
matching speaker to room size?
I have a 14 x 16 room with 9 ft ceilings and looking for new speakers. Presenlty using large old Ohm C2 bookshelfs. Listen to broad range from modern and classic jazz (piano, guitar, horns and vocals) to electric blues, tons of female singers, Hawaiian acoustic and fingerstyle guitar, classic rock and even some classical and newgrass like Nickel Creek and Alison Krauss. The one dealer in town suggeted stand mount monitors like Totem One, JM Focal 1007S and similar. I have been more interested in floorstanders like Gallo 3.1, Dali Mentor 6 or Helicon 4. He is saying this will give me too much bass? Is there a way to compute good match from room dimensions? I listen at low to high levels depending on time...Saturday mid-day vs. 11 at night. I have heard all these speakers, not necessarily side by side, trying to make a call but not sure which type to go with so I cant even proceed to which individual speaker to purchase. BTW, I dont have the optoin of bringing any of these home...most were heard on the US Mainland not in Hawaii.