Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

@veerossi,

Sadly, I have never heard any of the bigger Tannoy’s.  I only heard the inexpensive one with an 8 inch woofer.  I will have to hit another Audio Show to hear the Tannoy’s. I have heard the Klipsch and am hoping to purchase a new pair of Cornwall IV speakers this year.  I will use it in my secondary system that houses the JBLL100 Classic speakers I am using now in conjunction with a McIntosh MA6600 200wpc integrated amp.  I like to try different speakers in this system.  I never heard the PS Audio speakers as they are far too expensive and love my GE Triton Refs in my main system.  My living room is not that big and the Triton Refs with their slim profile allows me truly full range sound and still allows me to see the entire TV screen. 

I could not disagree more.. 

@mofojo Big myths die hard. So this does not surprise me- I get pushback on it all the time. But it comes down to something very simple, which is can you find a designer who can say what parameters exactly will favor a certain genre?

I've been doing this 45 years and got an engineering degree early on. I know a lot of designers and none of them make any claims to this effect. Since I design amps and preamps I see things a bit differently,  thru the eyes of my test equipment. Once that signal is in the amp, the amp does not care what it is, it just amplifies it. I suspect the same thing for speakers- they have no taste, they just move as the amp tells them.

So many come to mind but at todays prices used YG Carmel 2's are near $10k, imo very hard to beat at that price.

@ditusa he checked out here:

gregjacob OP

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01-15-2024 at 02:13pm 

Wrapping up, thanks to everyone for your input!  When opening up topics like these, the hope is that many benefit from the answers.  I've garnered much over my time in this forum just by reading questions and answers I hadn't even posed. So, hopefully, this is good stuff for those trying to suss out their equipment.  Thank you everyone.  I will close my part in this discussion and continue to mull over possible tweaks as well.  Cheers.

@mofojo Big myths die hard. So this does not surprise me- I get pushback on it all the time. But it comes down to something very simple, which is can you find a designer who can say what parameters exactly will favor a certain genre?

I’ve been doing this 45 years and got an engineering degree early on. I know a lot of designers and none of them make any claims to this effect. Since I design amps and preamps I see things a bit differently, thru the eyes of my test equipment. Once that signal is in the amp, the amp does not care what it is, it just amplifies it. I suspect the same thing for speakers- they have no taste, they just move as the amp tells them.

Any tech dude in the manufacturing space seems to think he knows everything there is to know about music (anything he doesn’t know is all one big myth!). Why don’t you have a seat someday and talk to guys like Levinson (too late for the late Schweikert) who actually understands instruments/music? You may gather more insight.

Until then, it is just another case of beating the deadhorse over n over about myths and non-myths.