People will end it by not responding to it. I certainly didn't expect it to run this long, but there has been some good posts. Some time in the 90's large speakers sort of went out of style with the mainstream. I suspect that Bose had a big hand in it in the beginning but other manufacturers at least somewhat followed suit, after all they did want to remain in business. Of course they didn't just make Bose clones but actually made great advances in small speaker Sq as well, well beyond Bose, and now as a result a lot of high end speakers are considerably smaller than what used to be considered the norm.
As an owner of large speakers from the big box speaker era I find it interesting how these big speakers have become somewhat scorned in the 21st century,particularly with people who were not around back then. It is (IMHO) sort of like blowback towards the excesses of the baby boomer generation and big speakers are a target of sorts, of what isn't acceptable in the 21st century household where a pod plugged into a docking station, or cell phone streaming music to Bluetooth speakers has won out in the mainstream opinion over huge speakers, amps, tape decks, TT's of the past.
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