What are the best speakers for 80's hard rock?

My Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T3.3 are the best for rock and roll.  And **all** other forms of music. Because they are the best. In my room. That I've heard so far. With my equipment. And my taste.

Once again, the idea that a speaker is better for one kind of music as opposed to another is 100% myth. The speaker is unable to distinguish what music it is playing.

We're talking about **1980s** **hard rock** for Pete's sake! What if its 1970s hard rock or 1990s hard rock?? Or what if its 1980s metal (which is not hard rock- ask any metal dude if hard rock is 'true')?

How in the heck can speakers be so genre specific?? The simple fact is that they are not. If its good for classical, it will have the punch, detail and dynamic range to handle rock or folk or whatever you throw at it. All speakers trade off things in price and performance; some might say that you need more efficiency or bass to do rock right, but you need that for classical too. As well as 90s house dub. And the ability to play my band, which is 2010s hard rock (space rock actually; slightly different genre...).

So- the idea that a speaker is somehow genre specific if complete nonsense and is 100% myth, and FWIW is the biggest myth in the world of loudspeakers. 

My speaker system sounds great for all eras of hard Rock & Roll, except a few specific things from late June of 1979…otherwise atmasphere is correct as usual, although some may find analog recordings of Liberian Death Mumblecore using a 1952 Martin Tiple somewhat challenging for drivers using alnico magnets. Trust me.

my energy rc-70's, with way overpowered amps sound purely amazing, and just sound........right. as the highs rolloff of these speakers makes merciful fate, sodom, bathory, slayer, hirax, satan jokers sound amazing, as if your a real metalhead, and your blasting reign in blood or the conspiracy in your car, you KNOW the treble is fuc*in fairly painful, yet we pull through and keep blasting the metal. which is why i love these speakers, they give 0 fatigue, and i mean absolutely NONE, no matter my volume, i can sit and listen to any metal i choose and most of the time i end up drifting off because there is no shrill what so ever! i have two pairs of these now, and they are my go to. if i find another pair i will buy another, they are that good ( for me)

but i still hammer down on my D-9's from time to time, and t hey are an amazing rock speaker. you can't do that with snell, paradigm, or other higher end speakers, there just not made for it

I wouldn't rule out Paradigm Reference studio 100v3's. I have a friend pushing them with an Anthem I225 Integrated amp pushing 225w into 8 ohms/310w into 4. If you set them up properly, cable your system right and have a good source, they can hold their own and then some. Test drive "Chewbacca" from Liquid Tension Experiment 2 with Tony Levin on bass and get back to me. 

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as the highs rolloff of these speakers makes merciful fate, sodom, bathory, slayer, hirax, satan jokers sound amazing, as if your a real metalhead,

You don't need to have a high frequency rolloff to enjoy these bands! What you need is a system that does not sound painful when you turn it up. That likely has a lot more to do with the electronics (due to distortion) than it does anything with the speaker.

One of my best friends (Earl Root, may he rest in peace, when introducing me to people in the metal scene would say 'he's not metal' and he was right- OTOH I introduced him to Steve Tibbetts and Popul Vuh; he introduced me to My Dying Bride, Skepticism, Earth, Therion, Opeth...) pretty much founded the metal scene here in the Twin Cities (google...). He was also a record collector and owned a record store. His system was anything but rolled off on the highs- it was very extended and natural (he ran Snell Acoustics model Bs driven by a set of tube monoblocks). The trick was of course to find the LP rather than the CD. A lot of metal kids shopped his store because he was the store in town that had the titles on LP. They preferred the LP because things like the cymbals sounded right when you cranked the volume.