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If I understand what you are getting at, and I'm not sure I do I would suggest this has more to do with the microphone set up on a recording.
No because the same recordings will sound different on different speakers. Thinner, reduced in scale on one vs another.
If you are talking tonal richness then that's more frequency response. A wide baffle will have different baffle step characteristics.
Frequency response is an obvious part of it. But it doesn't seem to me to be the whole explanation. After all, take a floor standing speaker that measures neutral from 20 - 20 and play a well mic'd drum set through it. Compare that to a massive PA system that also measures flat. The massive PA system will produce a drum set with far more scale - larger than life if anything - even though both systems may measure flat in frequency response.
I am wondering how the baffle-step issue may or may not come in to play in explaining the characteristics I'm talking about.
I did a lot of comparing of two different speakers, the Joseph Audio Perspectives:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/joseph-audio-perspective-loudspeaker
And the Devore Fidelity 0/93 speakers.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/devore-fidelity-orangutan-o93-loudspeaker
As you can see the JA speakers are the classic slim floor standing design using two smaller woofers, the Devores go the other way with a wide baffle and single bigger woofer. The rated frequency response for both speakers is very similar, so I don't see a major bass-depth advantage.
The JA speakers (which I love) cast a mammoth soundstage for their size. They are known for it. The Devore speakers don't cast as deep, wide and enveloping soundstage.
But a very distinct characteristic difference in their sound is the Devores just produce instruments and voices that sound "bigger, fuller, more life-sized and substantial." A sax sounds bigger more life-sized. A piano - everything from the "keys" to the sense of a piano's resonating body sounds more life-sized. Drums - much more like a real-sized drum set than the Perspective's presentation.
People here will be much better than I am at interpreting the speaker measurements, so here's the Joseph Audio Perspective Stereophile measurements:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/joseph-audio-perspective-loudspeaker-measurements
And here are the Devore 0/93 measurements:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/devore-fidelity-orangutan-o93-loudspeaker-measurements
Is there anything in there that predicts the Devores would produce more life-sized sonic impressions than the Joseph speakers? Is there anything about the choice of wider baffle plus bigger single woofer vs the JA's slim design and two smaller woofers, that would suggest the characteristics I'm talking about?
The thing is, the Devores sounded bigger no matter what instrument played, no matter where in the frequency range. Drum cymbals sounded bigger, a wood block being hit sounded life-sized, but smaller than life on the JA speakers, flute, piccolo, violin strings being plucked, anything that lives more in the upper frequencies, from top to bottom whatever came out of the Devores sounded bigger, weightier, more substantial.