Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

Zu

I don't think you are going to be in a room and picturing where the lead guitar is vs the bass guitar. 

@willgolf This suggests to me that you've not heard every rock recording out there. I run a studio; we pay attention to where we place instruments in the mix as do many studios! We record the drums with only 2 mics so we get as natural a sound out of them as possible.

You might try playing side one of Islands by King Crimson. This starts out as a jazzy piece and its very well recorded. It transitions to a pretty intense rock sound featuring multiple Mellotron tracks. It has depth and imaging. You might also try a good copy of ELP's first album... I can go on; I hope you get the point.

Ascend Acoustics Sierra Tower ELX with either the Titan dome or RAAL ribbon tweeter.

If interested in a bookshelf, their Sierra LX

@atmasphere 

I will gladly take a listen to the King Crimson album.  King Crimson in general is a very different type of rock similar to Pink Floyd.   I have been  a fan of King Crimson.

If I were to just listen to rock.....Van Halen, Bob Seger, Jethro Tull, Who, Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Metallica etc etc, then I would just get a good SS amp and dynamic-sounding speakers.  Again, that would just be my preference and it would have saved me thousand of dollars...lol

On my system, which is Aries Cerat amplification, Lampi Horizon DAC, Lucas Audio Music Server, and Viking Acoustic Dual Horn Grande Voix speakers.(soon to be Aries Cerat Aurora speakers), I just have not heard many rock songs that from the production level just wow me.  But when I have friends over and they want to blast that type of music they love it.  

It boils down to my tastes during a critical listening session are different than anyone else.  Everyone has their tastes.  Cheers

JBL has always been great Rock speakers

L100s and larger studio monitors.