What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?


I know totally blasphemy question here on Audiogon. But you like what you like, right? Anyway, I know most metal music is totally compressed and recorded horrible (aka Metallica) however there is a new age of metal bands out there that are starting to change that (Opeth started with Blackwater Park). So what speakers out there can take the pounding of a double bass drum kit hitting at full throttle and give the roar of metal guitar justice. There has to be a set up that would make Glen Tipton turn his head and say hell ya!
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Linaeum66 Yes missing something, a basic law of loudspeaker design = HoffmanÂ’s Iron Laws of Speaker Building

1) Bass Extension

2) Efficiency

3) Small Enclosure

The law is that you can only have two of these three

I am lucky enough to have loudspeakers that Van Halen RUSH Dio Metalica Tesla Judas Priest etc all played through live. I repurposed these horns into modern loudspeakers so when I listen to metal it's just as it should be heard. Through horns that the artists actually used in concert.