jliedeka
Audioholic General
I think buying speakers is probably the hardest thing to do in the sense that there are so many variables. The way speakers will sound depends on the qualities of the speakers themselves plus your room and upstream electronics and placement. You wouldn't want to drive really revealing speakers with poor quality sources. A perfectly neutral speaker (if such exists) may not sound good in a particular room.I would buy a set of speakers that is proven to be good, and sounds how I like it. Specs and sound isn't the only thing going on. Not everyone knows what they are hearing, and not everyone knows what they should be hearing. It takes time to figure out what is right and wrong, and it is also opinion. I have my preference, and if I can achieve that preference without having to deal with a brand like Definitive, I will.
SheepStar
I've been researching speakers continuously for several months now and I'm still not sure what I want. I can say that since I upgraded my receiver, my low end speakers sound better than they ever have. (That's good because I don't have any money for speakers now.) Part of that may also be that I changed the positioning and made some changes to my room.
On the spectrum between the purely subjectivist point of view and the objectivist POV, I'm in the middle but closer to the objectivist side. I believe that measurements will never give you the whole story and the final test is how things sound but I believe you can narrow down your choices by looking at trustworthy measurements. I'm thinking the NRC measurements from SoundStage and the ones in Stereophile.
Jim