Killer Floor Standing Speakers under $4000 for Rock?

i do not nessesarily agree....
first we have the problem of what it was mixed and mastered to sound like....so IF the studio is using NS1000 as the be all end all monitor well...the reults are going to vary...or a big JBL with a 8" or larger paper cone mid with breakup and ringing including sigificant out of phase 2nd order distortion ( that junk also counts as output...er efficiency...but that is a shall we say dirty secret)
My theory and it is shared is the lower distortion pistonic systems are truth tellers and they lay bare the recording and a lot of rock sounds really crappy on them...
hence some of the popularity of old tube stuff with tones of  higher order distortion to add back in..

...And If the studio didn't use that particular loudspeaker? A lot don't! Some use Westlake, some JBL, some ATC, some Snell, some even Magnaplanar. IOW the monitor thing is all over the map. We use High Emotion Audio.

If you try to generalize with rock you meet a dead end. Some of it is recorded live, some in the same studio that yesterday was recording an acoustic jazz section. In fact studios have to stay in business and can't be too picky about what type of music they record!

BTW, tube electronics in general as compared to solid state tends to have **less** 'higher order distortion' (I assume you mean higher order harmonic distortion), which is why tubes tend to sound smoother.

repectfully. disagree
monitors do matter at every step in the chain
they vary widely
a ton of classic rock was recorded and mastered with big JBL's with a host of strengths and known issues. The West coast sound is not a myth.

(2) ways to go about your query OP-

you can go w/ an older "rock" speaker- Infinity Cresendo Series (1990's)
or go w/ a Thiel CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 loudspeaker.  Happy Listening!

repectfully. disagree
monitors do matter at every step in the chain
they vary widely
a ton of classic rock was recorded and mastered with big JBL's with a host of strengths and known issues. The West coast sound is not a myth.

You're not actually disagreeing- you are making the same point I was. 'West Coast Sound'? What about the Minneapolis sound? The Seattle Sound? Is there a better speaker for that? How about the New York Sound or the Sound of London (Abby Road)? 70s Kraut rock? Norwegian Metal? Italian Prog? Is Bob Dylan Rock or folk? For that matter Steeleye Span or Pentangle? Which speaker is best for all those? Do you see the problem?

I've actually seen people ask which speaker is best for mid-80s downbeat; at first I thought they were joking. How in the heck can you design a speaker for a particular genre of music? Mid-90s Ambient anyone (one of my faves)? The fact of the matter is you can't- the voice coils and crossover parts have no idea what signal passes through them.

Actually, it can affect the sound of period-music, via, cross-over networks.
It all begins w/ the 1st order cross-over. If one likes this "sound" then seek out Vandersteen or Thiel (my reference). Progress w/ 2nd order up to 4th Order for best effect.