Here's why amps can be more important than speaker

In the 70s Japanese manufacturers started a spec war offering amps with incredable #s. Most sounded lousy, my trusty 20wpc NAD seeing many more expensive challangers off. Specs dont mean much these days in sound or marketing. You can find plenty of amps or speakers for that matter with similar specs that sound very different.
Some speakers require lots of current, some work best with low power tubes. Specs can help make a match, but they dont tell you how stuff sounds.

Utter nonsense. A bad speaker sounds bad, period. A cheap amp with a good speaker is far preferable. If you don't think the distortion produced by speakers is troublesome, then you simply don't care what real life sounds like and you have never heard an undistorted speaker. The distortion produced by apseaker does not occur as an ugly noise, but as a coloration - a 50 hz tone is produced as 60 hz, for example. It may not matter to you, but it is everything to me. Speakers and rooms are the real problems nowadays.

LOL Marakanetz, stop it you're killing me!
Thanks everyone for the comments.

Cdc, i agree. Our speakers are much better than we are willing to believe.