What specifIcations can I use to help in choosing a speaker?
There are no specifications which will really tell you how a speaker will sound. Comprehensive technical measurements of speakers are extraordinarily complex and difficult to correlate to sound. They are certainly of use to expert speaker designers, but of little practical use to the consumer. Even power ratings, as commonly provided, tell you nothing since there is no standard for how they are to be determined and no real correlation with maximum sound output in any case. Speakers vary much more in obvious sound character than other components. They interface with the listening room in ways which make some preferable to others in a given setup for reasons which are not related to quality as such. It is important to audition speakers carefully with a range of music which is important to you. How is the size of a speaker related to its sound quality? There is no fixed relationship between size and sound quality per se. As a general rule a large speaker with multiple drivers should be ab
