Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

That is a strange opinion. I have had quite a few speakers, large and small that were very satisfying with every type of music. I don’t know what your yardstick is...a fraternity beer blast?

@roxy54

"Very satisfying" eh?...My yardstick is that I’ve been proficient in playing a couple of instruments for 40+ years (violin, piano...can also slam with a guitar if i have to) and may have a better idea about how artists think, how things sound in real life, etc.

I have owned different kinds of "high end" speakers and know that different kinds of speakers sound better or worse at any price bracket for specific genres of music.

What’s your yardstick? Let me take a wild guess (kinda like how you did about the frat house beer blast n all).

a) 4 to 5 "audiophile" records on repeat all year with emphasis on "female vocals" for listening to your gear? lol (That’s about the extent of your playlist?). If a great artist has a suboptimal (non audiophile) recording, you wouldn’t play it?

b) Dealer/sales dude (watching out for his daily green) for some brand that I dissed for hard rock, etc?

a, b, or both?

@stereo5 Have you ever compared your Triton Reference’s to Tannoy Turnberry’s, Klipsch, or PS Audio’s speakers?  I also listen to mostly rock and have the Turnberry’s which are great, but I’ve always wondered how those Triton’s sound?

@deep_333 

If I only listened to a few audiophile discs, (I don't own records) there would be no way for me to know how all genres of music sound on a given speaker. I have also been exposed to plenty of live music in my life, and my Father was a violinist.

I believe that the difference between us is that I know that duplicating the realism of live music of any type is not fully possible on any system. The key to a good system I think is one that is able to reproduce a well balanced illusion, scaled to the room in which it is being played.

I think classical and rock can show how limited in dynamics at lot of speakers are as they both demand big swings in instant volume. 

Another vote for the Goldenear Triton reference.  Extended highs, natural mid, and extended bass response.  Certainly  not in the ultra high end, but sure does work for me.  Aerosmith to Zep, all sounds great.