@slick2 , It sounds like you got up on the wrong side of bed this morning. More so than any market I know of the audio market is consumer beware.
You have to learn what you like and why. Experience will lead you to the best speaker for you not some reviewer. Very few dealers have dedicated rooms for their systems where you can get a reasonable idea what the speaker is capable of. I don't even read them. At some point you just have to jump in.
Looking at my own experience, it took me 20 years and 6 different pair of speakers to figure out what I liked. Then another 20 years perfecting that approach. This is what the hobby is about. If you don't want to be bothered with it just get one of those package systems from Best Buy.