Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K


I have nice speakers for acoustics, jazz, vocals, etc. but are not great for rock and roll.  Would welcome any recommendations for speakers that do a great job with classic rock and roll.  I will add some components in my system that might influence thinking:

New Audio Frontiers Tube Preamp, New Audio Frontiers 845 Tube Power Amp, Lampizator Atlantic DAC, Innuos Zenith Streamer, Tchernov cables.

gregjacob

@atmasphere Wrote:

Inefficient speakers struggle because the have thermal compression associated with the voice coil of the drivers involved. It hurts them with any form of music so isn’t rock specific.

True! Heat Dissipation and Power Compression in Loudspeakers. See article below:

Mike

 

I would look for what you can try and return. 15K is a lot of money for speakers, you can get awesome speakers for 6K. If you look at used, you can pretty much consider speakers in the 30K range. 

such as 

http://speakerchoices.com/

Find a pair of used JBL 4412 (not the 4412a) monitors. Many rock songs, especially those done on the West Coast, were monitored on the 4412s. So, they give you the experience the recording engineer had. The L100's are similar.

@stereo5 

This is nonsense. Speakers are not 'voiced' using a certain form of music, not if there is a competent designer involved! They may prefer a certain genre, but that won't influence the design for the reasons I presented earlier.

Inefficient speakers struggle because the have thermal compression associated with the voice coil of the drivers involved.  It hurts them with any form of music so isn't rock specific.

There are specific measurements on speakers that can be tied to great sound for hard rock and metal genres, for example. I recall that this was all beaten to death in a different recent thread. If the designer doesn't ever listen to or care for such genres, his speakers wouldn't measure as such, i.e., would have been voiced differently., i.e., he would have pursued something else in the design space.