Your opinions on what speakers to go with?


I listen mostly to rock, dance/trance, female vocals?

My system is comprised of Rogue Audio M150 Monoblocks, Rogue Audio Perseus Preamp, Consonance Turandot Player, and Monitor RS8's speakers.

I am looking to upgrade the speakers and I would like to know your opinions on what to go with (or what companies make a system that for the most part sound great with the music that I listen to).

My problem is when I raise the volume only to mid levels I start hearing distortion coming from the Monitors, as well as sounds mixing together (when they shouldn't). I like to listen to my music loud so please keep that in mind.

Please any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Tom
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Showing 2 responses by shadorne

You need to think about pro speakers - your current speakers are already quite powerful but you are having the typical compression and "ringing" issues from consumer designs (rigid light weight cones small VC's and small motors). You probably listen louder than most people and need an internally damped (doped fabric or paper/pup) traditional type design.

Check out ATC, PMC, Meyer, and JBL studio monitors and you will surely find something you like. Big horns such as large Tannoys or traditional corner loaded Klipsch's (old but they are famous for good reason) are also an option that will suit your taste for loud and dynamic sound (like the real live performance).

Be wary of typical low cost towers with multiple woofers - it looks impressive but the woofers soon compress - better a simple two way like Meyer X-10 with two expensive high performance pro drivers than a multitude of cheap low cost woofers. What you see is not always what you get. What looks impressive is often just that - looks.
Of course, if this is something you are only experiencing recently then Tweak could be quite correct - you may have a tube issue. Another challenge could be microphonics when you play loud. Pink Floyd's studio have their tubes in an entirely separate room to avoid the microphonic problems at higher volume levels. I seriously doubt if cables/interconnects can cure a problem that only appears at higher volumes.

My advice was based on your stated interest in trance/dance genre and "like to listen loud". Check out this setup from a guy who mixes for Kaskade and other DJ's for club music.