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Setting a speaker set to small causes all the frequencies below the crossover setting to be routed to the subwoofer instead of to those speakers.

While in a perfect world (with enough time) you might be able to get better sound by leaving the speakers set to Large (all frequencies go to the speakers) and getting the subwoofer crossover set just right, you can get at least 95% of the way there by setting everything to Small and everything is guaranteed to work.

Setting speakers to Large is mostly done either because you are listening to music rather than movies, or because your room has really wierd LF responses and the benefits of having bass come from multiple sources (subwoofer and mains) outweigh the problems.