Not saying to demo with bad recordings, but what one buys, better match what they want to listen to. Especially if they don't want to have to earn a minor degree in audio science and electronics to get there. Used to take awhile, when all there was were magazines once/month to get info from.
The Japanese managed to match the hatch pretty well in the '70s and '80s with furniture store grade rack systems. Loved that stuff. It hooked me forever. Pioneer, Fisher, Marantz etc. We took our friends and favorite music to audition and that's all it had to do was pass the dirt and loud test.
Proper, revealing/accurate speakers would not have cut it. If speakers did rock and pop/country good enough to party to, great. Jazz would only sound better from there. This, from a time we bought stuff in person and really had to demo it if we were to have to eat ramen for a year to afford it and with the info age yet nowhere in sight.
Higher end, so-called proper speakers were a realm that a young working man could not afford to make a mistake in. Better just to buy the sure bet fun stuff that you can afford. We had heard enough snobby equipment that was not fun to listen to. Those dudes had no friends. They were all over at my dump with the 15s and a heap of records.