You may be forgetting a few pragmatic limitations of our host's testing paradigms. For example, he's a retiree who (AFAIK) has yet to mention his extensive weightlifting hobby. So, if we take a "small" floor stander like the 226Be, I can see how he may not want the stress (and even risk) of carrying a 60lb. 40" speaker to the test suite on a regular basis.
Yes it has happened, but quite a bit can be discerned from the little brothers within same lineups. If you're not thankful for the objective data we do now possess, as opposed to maybe 8 years ago, you haven't really been paying attention.