What are the best speakers for 80's hard rock?


Hello folks!
I want suggestions for best speakers and amp for 80's hard rock music. Many bad recordings, so many high end speakers (and amps) sounds very harsh and hard, with little bass. It's more important to me that my stereo can play bad recordings in a good way, than play good recordings in a fantastic way.

I want very laidback and soft treble, but I want a bass that goes deep and alo is very punchy.

I know many people say that I should here on vintage speakers. But I want new speakers. Any price range!

Thanks for suggestions!
rockpanther

Showing 3 responses by arcticdeth

Cerwin vega D-9's. But no longer made. 

Any cerwin win vega with the 15 inch woofer. Made to rock, period!!

if treble is an issue, just cut a small square from an old tshirt and tape it to the inside of the speaker cover, if still not enough, double it up.  Where do you live? I have an extra pair of the D-9's, not perfect, but sound wicked!  

Check the the cerwin website, any large speaker they have will be perfect for metal.  I listen to 90% metal, testament, wargasm, napalm death, Bathory, Hirax, the good stuff, and most of it will sound good on a good system, but then you have the early Bathory albums, which played through a k-mart receiver, or a pair of carver cherry 180's won't make much difference :)

cerwin is is a great start, that would be my first foray if I were to do it again.  I owned at15, se180's?? Black felt front, acordian style woofers surrounds, and I own 3 pairs of D-9's. 

Go go with a basic straightwire style amp for metal, QSC is where I would go, with a good quality preamp. I wouldn't spend to much if just metal.  If you need any other help , message me, I  have a vast knowledge of metal, amps, speakers etc etc. 

just trying to help.  \,,/

my energy rc-70's, with way overpowered amps sound purely amazing, and just sound........right. as the highs rolloff of these speakers makes merciful fate, sodom, bathory, slayer, hirax, satan jokers sound amazing, as if your a real metalhead, and your blasting reign in blood or the conspiracy in your car, you KNOW the treble is fuc*in fairly painful, yet we pull through and keep blasting the metal. which is why i love these speakers, they give 0 fatigue, and i mean absolutely NONE, no matter my volume, i can sit and listen to any metal i choose and most of the time i end up drifting off because there is no shrill what so ever! i have two pairs of these now, and they are my go to. if i find another pair i will buy another, they are that good ( for me)

but i still hammer down on my D-9's from time to time, and t hey are an amazing rock speaker. you can't do that with snell, paradigm, or other higher end speakers, there just not made for it