wide and deep as they want, and you’ll be looking at drivers that are between four and seven inches within the main speakers, while subwoofers will be between eight and 15 inches typically.
And again, you might have multiple of these drivers per speaker. Floorstanding speakers might have two or three large woofers with one smaller tweeter, while it’s common for subwoofers to have two 12-inch drivers in one box.
This means that they’re capable of a wider range of sound, and are going to be a lot louder without straining detail. The sound also tends to become more natural and dispersed from larger speakers, so it’ll feel more like sound is coming from the right area in the room, not directly from a small point.
Speakers like this will be heavy too (very heavy in some cases) – not just because the drivers, powered by hefty magnets, become large and weighty themselves, but also because absorbing all the unwanted reaction vibrations from a larger and more powerful set of speakers requires a heavier and stronger body for the speakers to sit in. There might be a metal skeleton, multiple layers of wood, and a load of resin all sitting inside a simple-looking wood finish.
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