Monitors to match room size?

[B.A. Stone]

I'm building a small room to serve as a home studio--strictly hobby stuff. It's around 12X12. I'm looking at nearfield monitors and wondering if room size should influence my choice of monitor size.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[n8tron]

generally you want smaller monitors in a smaller room because bass from large woofers will bounce to much in a smaller room, and a small woofer in a big room you won't hear the bass much at all.

it also depends on the type of music your making and also if you have any acoustic treatment in the room

[COOLCAT]

thats my understanding too.

headphone
Nearfield-smaller throw, closer, smaller....small nearfields
Mid-Fields, etc.,...
Far-Fields-far throw, larger, concert size PA speakers...

6.5" seems to be an average/median for Nearfields. +/- 1.5" or so.
You'll see Adams at 7", or BX5 at 5", KRK 4" seem to be liked by most owners.
8" has more bass, but I think your on the edge of Mid-fields...a bigger room, or hearing loss.

The median and average distance is 3ft, EE Triangle from many articles.

I never read what is the footage before its a Mid-Field and not a Nearfield?

[bubbagump]

Most anything you will be looking at are near field monitors. The whole point of near fields are to over power the crappiness of the room. That doesn't mean you don't need to treat a room where you are using near fields, they just over come some of the negative effects a little better. Don't mess with mid or far field monitors unless you are mastering or mixing Jurrasic Park and have the room to put them in. I would say 98% of the music mixing going on now days happens on a near field monitor (Genelecs, Mackie, Dynaudio, Adam, Events, etc.)

[mixsit]

I don't know. Given the same frequency response it would seem that the larger woofer is buying you more headroom, or extension. Either way as far as the bass (and the room), it's omni-directional.
Just wondering.
Wayne