There are two ways of testing the audio ouput of loadspeakers.
1] In a room reasonably appointed to resemble the 'real life' room where the speakers might be installed. This need not include having a bus stop outside which serves a large secondary school, as does the room of a friend who has many albums and a major Hollwood movie sound track to his credit. But such is real life.
2] In an anachoic chamber with, in the extreme, a porthole where the reviewer's head pokes thru' into the chamber. Otherwise, just the reviewer on a seat.
2] is not useful to consumers of audio equipment.
In the real world, we live in conditions that are not ideal for listening to loudspeakers.
I have spent hundreds of hours in the control rooms of recording studios. Note that after a take has been agreed as satisfactory, a rough mix is made and this is played thru' a pair of 'near field monitors' installed on the mixing console. For many years these were, in all the studios I went to, Yamaha N10s. These would not be considered 'hi-hi' by 'hi-fi' mags. But they were 'real world'.
The effect on my attitude to 'hi-fi' is this. Allocate a budget to your total purchase. Make it as big as you sensibly dare. This sum will be allocated to 3 or more units, depending on the number of sources delivering your music. The more sources, the more slices from the budget. My view of the current fad for vinyl is that the 'Golden Ears' syndrome is back.
Once you've worked out how much to spend on which box, go shopping. A round-up of reviews from mags and websites will help. It might be all you need because, above a certain price and taking the reputation of the brand into consideration, 'hi-fi' is like cars. These days pretty much everything is good gear.
Once you've assembled your system and given it a reasonable audition, unless there's something clearly amiss, live with that system, enjoy the sounds it makes and give up chasing a non-existent pot of gold at the end of a 'hi-fi' rainbow.
I deliberately down-graded [you might think] because it suited ny new living conditions. I sold my Musical Fidelity B1 [described in a review when it was lunched as 'unnecessarily good'] because it had no digital inputs. I sold my Marantz CD63 KI [rated by some 'hi-fi' mag as one of the 10 best ever audio products of any kind in the 40 years of the mag's production]
I play CDs on a Blu-Ray player connected to a Marantz PM6006. I've got rid of a box, got excellent digital audio from the TV and discs and, tho' I could probably improve on the Monitor Audio 5 Bronze spkrs, when I listen to what's coming out of them I know I really don't need to - unless to spend money for the sake of it.