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Skylabs Audio makes room for smaller speakers

Kevin Moll's only new upload explores compact cabinets, bass response and the difference speaker placement makes.

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Skylabs Audio Story of October 11, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Nobody Wants Big Speakers Anymore. What Happened?

"Nobody Wants Big Speakers Anymore. What Happened?" sounds like a farewell to giant cabinets, but Kevin Moll's description leaves them a place in the room. The real subject is what smaller speakers can do, and how changing a pair can change a stereo's personality.

Skylabs Audio's only new upload grew out of a week spent listening to vintage and new stand-mount speakers at the West Des Moines shop. It compares front-, rear- and bottom-ported cabinets with sealed acoustic-suspension designs, connecting those differences to placement and bass. Wharfedale, Triangle, Monitor Audio, Polk, Mission and EPI all figure in the exploration, which ranges from relaxed listening to speakers suited to music with more impact.

The upload has reached about 165,000 views and is the channel's busiest video for daily viewing. Its comments provide a cheerful counterargument to the title: people describe living rooms full of large speakers, buying a bigger house to accommodate more, and sharing their enthusiasm with a spouse. Others raise a practical wrinkle: once you buy stands for smaller speakers, floor-standing models can start to look like the simpler purchase.

Across the channel, weekly views topped half a million and subscribers increased modestly, although today's viewing pace is below the usual level. That weekly audience sits between the nearby PC-build channels PC BUILD-ASMR and Pc_Build; LGR Blerbs had a much quieter viewing week.

The older catalog keeps the value question alive. "My Biggest Fear Is Coming True" considers whether inexpensive CDs offer collectors an alternative to increasingly costly vinyl, while "5 Vintage Stereos Nobody Wants Right Now (Big Mistake!)" points toward overlooked receivers, turntables and bookshelf speakers. Small cabinets are part of a broader Skylabs conversation: how much listening pleasure needs to cost, or occupy.

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What viewers say

I bought a bigger house just to store more speakers.
@KillerKlipschSee it on YouTube
I'm lucky enough to be married to a woman who loves all the big speakers in our living room as much as I do.
@hooger8892See it on YouTube
The stands for stand mount speakers are often so expensive that it makes more sense to get floor standing speakers, and they won't fall off the stand and break.
@bactaniteSee it on YouTube

7 more comments

There is no replacement for displacement
@herbertvorderbergSee it on YouTube
I LOVE my big speakers. Nothing comes close
@MarkTurner-vs7ucSee it on YouTube
It's Sunday, time to listen to kevin
@davehicks6836See it on YouTube
I love big speakers, I have a pair of twin 15” JBL Pro, and an 18” JBL Pro Powered Sub in my living room…
@teddbobb4672See it on YouTube
I have big speakers (Klipsch, Vandersteen, JBL, Magnepan) and love them!
@ericsmith5540See it on YouTube
This is why i started building speakers, i like solid multi layered dampened cabinets with no resonance with a 10" woofer. There's no replacement for displacement...
@BostonMike68See it on YouTube
Kinda late but my first thought was people are starting to grow up with ear buds and gaming headphones which may not have the greatest bass response to begin with so the smaller speakers are a closer match to what their ears have grown accustomed to. Just a thought, as always enjoyed your video Kevin!
@kevinomura5251See it on YouTube