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Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

I have nice speakers for acoustics, jazz, vocals, etc. but are not great for rock and roll.  Would welcome any recommendations for speakers that do a great job with classic rock and roll.  I will add some components in my system that might influence thinking:

New Audio Frontiers Tube Preamp, New Audio Frontiers 845 Tube Power Amp, Lampizator Atlantic DAC, Innuos Zenith Streamer, Tchernov cables.

gregjacob
last_lemming
638 posts
 

Forte IV’s

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mazian
392 posts
 

Definitely SS power amp of any type + horns or Tekton

gregjacob OP
114 posts
 

I'm hearing some things here.   A lot of Klipsch, Volti, JBL horn-type speakers.  Also some suggestions to employ SS amps instead of tubes.  Since I run separates, I'm not opposed to adding a SS power amp and running some rock-dedicated speakers in the same room... it would be cool to have a speaker switch that could direct the pre to the amp / speaker of choice on demand...

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stereo5
6,373 posts
 

Take this from someone who plays 90% Rock, every day.  I use Golden Ear Triton Reference speaker system.  Powered woofers and smooth highs.  They are on sale for $9K a pair, regularly $12.5K a pair.  They play Classical and Jazz superbly as well.  You may also like the JBL L100 Classic 2 for around $5K a pair, I use the L100 Classic, the Classic2 just came out.   You would definitely need a sub or two with The JBL’s.   I use a single SVS SB2000pro sub which was around a grand in piano black.  

mofojo
2,288 posts
 

Tektons are the bomb for rock / metal. Dynamic like a horn but smoother than most horns. They are fast and have great mid bass as well which is key for rock. 

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