To be totally truthful there are times where a small speaker is better. If
all the bass etc isn't there you seemingly can hear it better because it's
not so muddy sounding. It's even better if the audio amp in the radio you
are using is designed to roll off the lower bass end freqs as the speaker is
trying to reproduce freqs that it cannot and spends too much time doing
that. Then after all that is done you get a muddier sound.

A lot of cheap scanners for example are designed with small speakers. The
designers therefore simply use very basic discriminators that will decode
all freqs and send ti to the speaker. Because it is a small speaker you
don't hear the subtones rumbling in the back ground! Plug in a good set of
headphones and look out!!

SW stations that are driving for max loudness can over look the bass. But to
my knowledge a lot roll the bass back a bit because of the speaker in the
average SW radio is a small thing.

A little experimenting is in order I would say.
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