It's not that specs insure a good sounding match, but that they can point out a less than optimal, or even bad matching. For speakers you really need to look at the actual graph of their impedance with phase angles.
Regarding your earlier long post, my take away is that you read too many reviews and thought you knew what you wanted. A better approach might have been to select your speaker and then let the dealer put together the rest of the system. For the amount of money you were willing to spend it would have saved you much time/effort and would have placed any operational issues onto the dealer.
Regarding your earlier long post, my take away is that you read too many reviews and thought you knew what you wanted. A better approach might have been to select your speaker and then let the dealer put together the rest of the system. For the amount of money you were willing to spend it would have saved you much time/effort and would have placed any operational issues onto the dealer.