With popular music, and especially hip-hop, you'll need a setup that excel at PRaT, vocal naturalness and not being hard-sounding with overly compressed productions. There are two setups, in my experience, which handles all of these three characteristics: Tannoy driven by Manley (as in mine own setup) or if you want an SS setup; a full Naim set. I guess there are a lot of great systems that can handle this kind of music. However, these are two possibilities that I have extensive experience with that can crank up the drive, flow and funk of rap.
What speakers have best bass for hip hop, and rock
I have revel studios and krell kav2250's bi amp, and I'm not that happy with the bass or soundstage. I recently heard a B&W 801N, liked it, and want to audition the new 802D. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I really don't know what else is out there that would be good. As you see, I am mostly into "popular" music. Thanks.