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Why 12" for sure? Two 6" have the same surface area and will perform just as well as one 12".
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This is wrong. Assuming the surface of the driver cone can be expressed as a circle, two 6" drivers have a surface area of 18 pi; one 12" driver has a surface area of 36 pi, double that of two 6" drivers. These numbers won't change all that much when you account for the actual shape of the driver cone. Competent 12" drivers will always produce deeper, louder, and less-distorted bass than that of two 6" drivers of similar quality.
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IMO, smaller drivers are easier for the amp to control and will yield lower amounts of distortion (driver related).
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Smaller drivers will be easier to control, but at that point, they stop being bass drivers and start being midrange/midbass drivers. If you want true bass from this floorstander, you need big drivers.
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Also, IMO, don't bother with a sub in a music only setup, it's just a pain to integrate satisfactorily. I know some will disagree with me, but quality floorstanders for music listening usually don't require a sub.
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In my experience, buying a sub has done nothing but enhance the quality of my audio-music experience. A driver in a subwoofer cabinet is not much different from that same driver in a floorstander cabinet, except that while you can move the driver in a subwoofer cabinet to different places in the room to achieve the best bass response, you cannot easily do the same with the same driver in a floorstander cabinet.
Very much hope this helps,
Peter