Speakers designed for typical home listening environments would not do well in an auditorium or theater. If that is your intended venue the results would be suspect at the least, misleading at the worst, and pointless for most audiophiles.
In light of a recent multi-speaker "shootout" published in one of the audio webzines I would hope the sponsors of this speaker comparison consider at minimum the following important points:
1. Determine in advance that each device under test is working properly, according to the manufacturer's specifications. This means extensive testing before, during, and after the shootout with good equipment and an experienced technician.
2. Optimum listening height should be determined in advance for each listener and speaker; if stands are used they should be baffled (if that is the manufacturer's desire) or open (again, if designed for use with such).
3. If listeners are seated horizontally on axis, then no listeners should be seated off axis or in another listener's acoustic shadow, and vice versa. Perceived FR and tonal balance will change considerably with listening position due to differences in speaker directivity.
4. Is the listening room small, medium, or large, treated or untreated, and if treated, in what fashion? Do you intend to mimic a typical home environment (mostly reflective), an anechoic chamber (most absorptive), live-end/dead-end, or what? Or will you use each kind, moving the entire test and its participants from venue to venue? How do you plan to find the optimum speaker position (e.g. distance from back and side walls)?
5. What associated equipment will you use? Foir example, will there be primarily current-source or voltage-source amplification? Analog or digital sources? Entry level, mid fi, or high end price ranges? Will there be a live music reference? Indeed what will be the reference--headphones, a Stereophile Class A speaker in the same room, the personal hifis of the participants?
I could go on at great length, and others here could add many other variables I have not touched on. What makes these "comparisons" of questionable value
is that if one setup with one speaker in one environment and one set of listeners gives result X, and another setup with a different speaker in a changed environment and new listeners gives result Y, I don't see what has been accomplished, other than producing fodder for anecedotes that will find their way onto the mass confusion which are internet message boards. Yet if you don't change the gear, room, and test subjects you end up with one man's opinion based on his room, gear, and preferences, which vary greatly as we all know.
Still I wish you good luck and good listening.
B Cheney
President VMPS Ribbon
www.vmpsaudio.com 
