Maybe critical listening skills are bad?

I must be a martian...

Or my acoustics studies and experiments enlightened me...

Critical skills used to compared speakers are useless...

( save for reviewers who trust their "taste" and dont give a damn about acoustics conditions the look fixated on their new speakers which is ridiculous )

i use my critical skills not merely to buy speakers...But to embed them properly in a dedicated acoustic room...

I just bought new one, my last powered one stop functioning, i adressed the acoustic for the new one, bought the right tube pre-amp...And i modify the speakers vent hole for the better and the tweeter directional cell after few days of listening...

This ask for real listening skills unlike reviewers listening one speakers after the other in the same non dedicated room to sell you costlier upgrade...

The OP then ask the wrong question in the wrong way... And yes i want imaging and encompassing soundfield and natural timbre...No compromise here sorry.... And it is the third time i designed it with three different speakers pair, thanks to acoustics principle and to my learned acoustics skills..

Conclusion :

Each speakers ask for his dedicated room settings.. .. Listening different speakers in the same living room space without modification make no acoustic sense...i dont read reviewers...

Best to study acoustics principle...

The best theoretical book is Akpan J Essien "sounds sources"

The best practical acoustics books is Floyd Toole...

Between theoretical and practical all the articles of Edgar Choueiri....

By the way acoustics science dont change with the price of the speakers...I can embed well any speakers at any price...

Criticism of one’s critical listening skills ain’t so great either. 

Critical listening must be learned and acquired by experimenting with acoustics principle in a room...

Not by changing the gear pieces and calling this my taste and listening skills.....

Is it so difficult to understand why ?

If you dont understand how to create imaging and soundstage in a room by yourself, using any speakers, according to recognized acoustics principles about reflections, absorption, diffusion, it is meaningless to speak of listening skills of reviewers  who change the gear piece4 and call their branded name products evaluation "knowledge"...It is marketting not knowledge...

@mahgister --

You don't negate the differentiation of speakers by understanding and properly implementing acoustics. "Properly" with a proviso, certainly insofar it's not universally accepted what constitutes the right acoustic properties of a listening room in relation to a given pair of speakers, ears and gear. Acoustics aren't everything, although a vital part of the "equation."