Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

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.

I'd second the Legacy Focus, take a look at the new Focus XD, a full range powered speaker with 750 watts of amplification in each speaker. They come in right at your price, around $15000. A friend just bought a pair (with the complete Home Theater surround and Marquis center) and loves them. I owned the original Focus in the mid 90's, they're the real deal-

Greg

@roxy54,

I already gave my recommendations at the beginning of this thread.  

If you want to rock out and have a crap load of $ left over.