When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you?

for those who don’t get all the braincells washed by Faux, try reading a few books..

I would suggest :

The Reckoning by David Halberstam

and 

Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, Maquilas and a tale of two cities by Chad Broughton

or

Factoryman by Beth Macy

of course, these are nuanced, detailed and not the polarizing crap you have been fed.

And yes, i have managed in both union and other shops with up to 5k team members. I live by the saying “ you get the union you deserve “…

While Tesla might pay well, Elon certainly chaffed at recogniz8ng the danger of Covid. You can’t buy safety.

Even they will tell you that 75% of gm vehicles are now built in mexico and canada in non union plants.

Do you believe everything you are told?  Most GM vehicles sold in the US are manufactured in the US. Not all, but >50%. I don't have a handle on Mexico, but would expect, and a quick Google indicates all or close to all of their facilities in Canada are union shops. GM has the highest percentage of US content in its US made vehicles. GM sell AND makes more cars in China that the US now. For clarity, they are sold and made there.

Passenger car MFG is moving out of the US and Canada because the sales are not there, and overall costs are lowest near your customers. Mexico can ownership is growing. Pickups and SUVs, are where the sales are in the US, and there is still strong MFG in the USA of those.

Another point, is it is best to look at dollars, not total numbers. It is lower cost vehicles being shifted into production in the Mexico and other lower cost centers, higher dollar vehicles not so much.

Disregarding brands and types of speakers, I will go for the ones that make an instrument sound like it is in the room with you. Any acoustic instrument recorded well should sound lifelike.  These are the speakers made for extended listening sessions.

Dynamics, tonality, and flat response. Not a stickler for dead flat but some speakers with large deviations from flat may sound amazing on some kinds of music but won’t be a good all-arounder IME. 
 

im a robot

How the speakers sound in my space. I will never buy a pair of speakers that I cannot audition at home.