What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?

One of my best friends, Earl Root (RIP) pretty well founded the metal scene here in the Twin Cities. He turned me on to a lot of metal, some of it excellently recorded.

One thing that came out in spades is if a speaker is really good at classical music, it will be good with metal too. I use the Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3, which uses dual 15" woofers and a field-coil powered midrange horn with a real beryllium driver (no breakups in the audio passband- its very smooth and fast). It plays metal great- it can shake the building easily. And it plays classical great too- it can shake the building easily. But it plays delicacy as well. Fields of Nephilim never sounded so good.

Surprisingly, I am finding it difficult to find an excellent heavy metal speaker. There are a lot of great speakers out there, but so far I can’t find a speaker that has these qualities:
1(Fast deep Bass, however not too over powering or boomy
2)Treble smooth and accurate that defines the lead guitars accurately without a brash blur of distortion.
3)Treble that lays the drummers symbols on top nicely to the rest of rhythm
4)A midrange that gives the vocals a clean but not harsh edge.
5)Good separation of the different instruments playing in the music
6)Good live sound, if you know what I mean.

I am slowly picking through the different suggestions here on the form and I know there is a lot more than just the speakers to achieve good sounding system. I have been also playing around with my listing room acoustic and narrow down a better sound. I am enjoying my search though, lol.

Mikelavigne those speakers do look impressive!

Not my bag. but what about Cerwin-Vega?

Actually if you are on more of a budget, Audiokinesis makes excellent speakers that fulfill the requirements. The Classic Audio Loudspeaker I mentioned retails for about $33,000...

Something you also want to consider is the interface between the amp and speaker! To get best results, it cannot be an assumption that a large solid state amp will drive all loads properly. It will drive some, and others will be better driven by vacuum tube amps.

Don't listen to much heavy metal these days but what I do have sounds nice on my AR-90s. My Infinities sound nice as well but volume wise it ain't gonna happen.