Taking the word of any member of any forum about how a particular speaker will sound to you is problematic at best if you have no common frame of reference with the reviewer. I’ve been reading audio forums now for about 6 years and there are only two people in all of them, jakewash and St_PatGuy, (both here) who’s opinions about how something sounds I can accept w/o reservation. Jakewash because we always seem to hear the same things out of similar situations, and St_PatGuy because we’ve actually sat down and compared speakers together in blind tests.
The only real way to gain any value from opinions you read on the internet be they from paid reviewers or amateurs is to listen to as many speakers in as many different environments as you can to get a broad perspective of what you like. Then you can at least have some common experiences with which to relate to what you read on the internet.
