As for the original question by the OP, I think we all need to agree on the objective of what a speaker should do.
From what I read in textbooks before, the objective may be stated as, 'A speaker should reproduce the electrical signal received at it's inputs exactly, as a pressure variation output.' Obviously, we all know from experience that this does not happen exactly, with less accuracy as it does with respect to electronics (pre-amps, amps). So we need a test to show that the speaker output waveform is the same as the electrical waveform input to the speaker.
Problem: what about the microphone used to test the speaker?... What is it's transfer function? What room do we test the speaker in? Etc.
We all know that measurement of a speaker is not so easy. I suggest we look at the work of Floyd Toole, et al., as guidance for further discussion and work.