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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!
lizzardkingseattle

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riffer
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In my small room I use Totem Arro's + a Storm Sub. Regardless of which speakers you get, If you don't have bass down to 40Hz, you should get a sub. The Storm has a built in crossover so I can let the Storm handle the really low frequencies and the Arro's handle the rest. The Storm's volume control helps me adjust for some of the worse bass in recordings.

As for the quality of recording, I agree. You will have better luck with the early vinyl. The original Vanda/Young AC/DC pressings are good (At least the Canadian and Australian), as well as Iron Maiden up to a point. Judas Priest were always terrible from the get go, even on vinyl.
riffer
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Dave_72

Interesting to hear. as that is one of my favorite albums. I might hit up ebay and do a comparison.

Biggest disappointment of the modern era is Audioslave. Garbage CD, Garbage vinyl, and such a great band :)
riffer
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Oops, I meant :(
riffer
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Update - Not enough room to get rid of the Arro's. Thinking Forest or Forest Signature. Still - Playing my ripped DVD Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death and it sounds okay. Not vinyl, but I'm a little too tanked to trust myself to get into the Iron Maiden vinyl.
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