Best speakers for classic rock

Yeah right....you’ll make a sarod and a piano sound the same (equally flippin brilliant) on every kind of speaker...Immense Bullsht is what it is! Lol

@deep_333 

I never said anything like that (take a look). Of course different speakers sound different and so will instruments playing through them. When you create an argument where its not one I made but one you made, and then knock it down, that technique is known as a 'Strawman'; which is a logical fallacy, and is therefore false by definition.

In case you wish to make credible arguments, its not a bad idea to know how fallacies like this work, so you can avoid them in your debate:

Strawman fallacy

What I did say is that what makes one speaker good at rock will make it good at other genres like jazz or classical or ethic folk. To that end it will have good resolution, the ability to play loud and decent bass. All forms of music have these requirements to sound right when reproduced.

 

Again??? Spoken like a simpleton....over and over

What’s your real story here dude?

Did you blow all your cash on a single pair of speakers (’cost no object’ or something?) and you’re trying to convince yourself somehow that it is simply the best thing ever for every kind of music out there? Deep down, are you regretting blowing all your cash on 1 pair of speakers and trying to cope somehow?

@deep_333 I have multiple sets of speakers and run a recording studio. My taste is from all forms of western classical, ethnic folk music, prog rock from the late 60s to now, electro/ambient from the 70s-2020s. I play keyboards in a space rock band right now, also string bass, flute, sitar and sarod although rusty on the latter two as my sitar is electric.

My main speakers are the Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3.3. They are 98dB and flat to 20Hz.

As a manufacturer in high end audio, I’ve long been exposed to the myth of speakers somehow being better at one genre than another. Anyone who understands the frequency range of musical instruments and how the ear perceives sound will know right away that a mechanical transducer cannot be made to favor a certain genre simply because all humans have the same range of hearing and design their instruments and music accordingly.

So a speaker that is good at rock is also good at classical, electro, jazz and so on because the things that make that speaker good apply to all categories of music- such as resolution, the ability to play loud easily and the ability to play bass. Those attributes are common to a lot of different forms of music!

Again:

The idea that a speaker is the best for a certain genre of music is one of the biggest myths in audio. Is 'classic' rock from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? Or, if one is a bit younger, does that mean 80s and some 90s?

I actually had someone ask me what the best speaker for downtempo 80s was. I *think* he was actually serious about it. (Downtempo 80s might be on the 4AD label and recorded by John Fryer. Or maybe not...)

Seriously, what makes a speaker good at playing an original pressing of Electric Ladyland will make it good at playing classical and ethnic folk music as well. The speaker does not have taste and does not care what your taste is.

Peaks in classical music can be as loud as a rock concert. Whether you can hear that in a recording or not is a different matter- that depends on if any compression is done in the recording.


You need good bass response to do classical right- there can be a lot of wallop in a 6' diameter bass drum!

Don't forget electronia in all its guises from the 70s until now. One of Vangelis's best LPs is the 1492 Soundtrack- nice bass on that one. Mike Oldfield did a nice recording about the same time called Songs of Distant Earth, both were available on import vinyl in the early 90s. Why limit yourself to classic rock??

The idea that a speaker is the best for a certain genre of music is one of the biggest myths in audio. Is classic rock from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? Or, if one is a bit younger, does that mean 80s and some 90s?

I actually had someone ask me what the best speaker for downtempo 80s was. I *think* he was actually serious about it. (Downtempo 80s might be on the 4AD label and recorded by John Fryer)

Seriously, what makes a speaker good at playing an original pressing of Electric Ladyland will make it good at playing classical and ethnic folk music as well.


Audiokinesis has made very fairly priced loudspeakers that are easy to drive. If you want bass and the ability to play loud (things that are good for classical music) that would be a good way to go.