Most recent speaker you audited in room and returned? Why did you return it?

LSA 10 statement speakers

I stil have PTSD

None! But then I don't buy speakers just hoping they will just happen to sound good. If my research suggests (absent an actual in home audition) that the speakers have the characteristics that are important to me in the first place, which are supported by user/professional reviews, I buy them and I will dedicate a considerable amount of time, in some cases years actually, to dial them in by finding the appropriate electronics and carefully setting them up in my room. No small feat I think, and I can always sell them if I can't make them work for me. 

I would not do that

It's way too much work!!!

Kef LS50 Meta.I'm not so sure that I didn't get a bad set though. The left speaker sounded like it was breaking up at volume. 

I've also owned some sacred cows on this forum from smaller manufacturers that shall remain nameless for fear of reprisal. 

All the speakers i bought may ha ve been returned save the mythical Tannoy dual concentric gold which were the best i ever owned ...

I did not know for most of my life how acoustics impact the speakers working and could serve the speakers or impede them...

Now if the speakers are relatively good, nevermind their price, specs, design , i will make them shine because i learned basic acoustics ...I will not retrurn them back save if their design is too limitative and cannot be optimized ...

I did it very well modifying my low cost powered book shelf ...I use them for music now in an acoustic dedicated to them ..

I am happy with them now ; before optimization ( redesigning of the porthole ) i hated them for 10 years and i had put them for computer trivial use not music .....

Most people own top speakers as my past Tannoy and never learn how to make them shine at their optimal level ...

Then returning back the speakers , if they are not trash to begin with , is an error by ignorance of acoustics if not most at least half of the time ...😁

For sure half of the speakers if they are not trash are not interesting ... Acoustics cannot save speakers which are badly designed to begin with, not well balanced or harsh etc ...

The self powered low cost speakers i modified were universally acclaimed to begin with even they were not enough for my taste right out of the box ...I succeed to modify them because they were relatively well designed and balanced ...My modification consist among other thing to give them a better porthole , with which i go from 85 Hertz to now near 50 hertz clear not boomy at all ... 85 hertz is not enough for music ....I prefer my modification going 50 hertz instead of buying a cheap sub ... i dont need boom -boom ... I need clear layered bass ...

Costlier price tag dont replace acoustics basic knowledge and basic acoustics knowledge can elevate a low cost speaker to a more higher status ... ...