What do you consider the most when choosing a pair of speakers?

I like to switch my speakers around so sometimes one set is moved from the upstairs living room to the basement listening room.  So it is important to me that my wife is able to carry them for me up and down the stairs.  She's almost 70 so I try to buy stand-mount speakers only and keep the weight of each speaker under 40-50 pounds.  Gotta love her!

@monacousticusa , IMHO if you are not freely giving out full measurements in my mind you are hiding something. That's either you don't have them or there is something wrong with them.  Only to people who audition at shows? I would not even bother with that attitude.

Listening to a speaker anywhere but in my space is a near meaningless venture. The room colors the sound too much.  The measurements tell me far more about how it will behave in my room than an audition ever will outside my house. Most speaker vendors provide inadequate information. That is bad enough. Providing none wastes my time. I won't bother.

@toolbox149 

IMO the lower midrange is more important than bass and treble in achieving accurate and realistic reproduction, where you hear the realism, especially with acoustic instruments.

@theaudioamp 

Listening to a speaker anywhere but in my space is a near meaningless venture. The room colors the sound too much. 

Actually ones that measure poorly in a chamber, etc, should also work poorly in your room, or anyone’s room.

The measurements tell me far more about how it will behave in my room than an audition ever will outside my house. Most speaker vendors provide inadequate information. That is bad enough. Providing none wastes my time. I won't bother.

Agreed.