Audiophile Speakers for Rock, HipHop and Techno

klipsches tektons zus - these are ’lively’ brash sounding speakers, excel with drum snaps, forward presentation, not the most refined, not the best at imaging - so they work well with electronic music, rock, ’party tunes’ - they are good with the beat, impact, energizing, in-your-face sound which is the essence and goodness of that kind of music

100% wrong

In-yer-face sounding speakers are dreadful for electronica. A presentation that fatigues is the opposite of what's required.

You need musicality, scale and control.

I have enormous respect for Atmasphere, but he's also wrong on this.

I've lost count of the number of speakers ($ power amps) I've heard that might excel with jazz or classical- and utterly fail to capture the scale, bass slam and extension, and overall dynamism required for electronica. Bookshelf speakers are equally irrelevant to the successful presentation of the genre.

You need big floorstanders and big, solid state power amps. 

Don't take the word of otherwise knowledgeable people who don't know the genre. 

Two examples of what you are missing ☺

Apologies for my earlier bombasticity

To be sure we're even talking about the same thing, and more importantly 

If you'd care to enjoy a quasi religious experience this weekend, and perhaps be reminded why you love this hobby?

Find some time when everyone's out.

Pour yourself a stiff one, wrap yourself a fat one. Whatevs floats your boat.  Once you've consumed and warmed your system up, play the second track above, 'Freak' at the maximum volume you consider enjoyable.

( Its incredibly well produced so you can safely crank it. Transients are well controlled)

I promise you a thrilling ride

Then come back and say whether electronica requires a system to throw a soundstage?😁

If you're driven to buy the album, would recommend cd over vinyl, in this instance. 

@tmac1700, are you just looking for new speakers or do you want your rock, hiphop and techno tracks to sound better?

You mention boomy bass, that is normally a room acoustics issue, usually handled quite well with multiple subs, room treatments and possibly some parametric e.q. Most times when using subs it is works best to plug any ports in your main speakers.

Are there other issues that are bothering you, or is it just the boominess?

some speakers do better with some musical genres than others because their strengths and weaknesses are more befitting and tolerated with certain kinds of music

example:

klipsches tektons zus - these are ’lively’ brash sounding speakers, excel with drum snaps, forward presentation, not the most refined, not the best at imaging - so they work well with electronic music, rock, ’party tunes’ - they are good with the beat, impact, energizing, in-your-face sound which is the essence and goodness of that kind of music

@jjss49 

If a speaker is 'brash' at some point you'll eventually tire of that even with electronia or rock. What's being ignored is that there are some excellent recordings in these genres that easily reveal speaker problems. Once revealed you'll always hear it and it won't matter the genre!

(here are some examples:

'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath; get the white label Vertigo pressing to really hear what that recording is about

'Mystical Experiences' by The Infinity Project big bass, lots of fun details hidden in the mix; get the Blue Room Released LP pressing if you can find it)

The idea that a certain speaker can favor a certain genre is the biggest myth in audio. If its good at rock but sucks at classical, you'll find that if you play enough rock recordings it actually sucks at rock too.