What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?

If you have a sub, you can try budget PA speakers. The Behringer B212XL and B215XL, Mackie C200 and c300z are models that seem liked for home use. These are high efficiency compression horn speakers so can play loud without strain and are very dynamic. Low powered tube amps are enough to drive them. I have the B212XL and with a sub and bass EQ they sound impressive for around $300.00 a pair.

To me, pretty sounding expensive high-end speakers seem a waste for heavy metal music.

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Yeah, but those are gonna need work. Unless you can find a pristine pair. And even so, they would need tlc. It wouldn't be a good idea to set those up and blast them, imo.

Not sure why all the hating on metal, saying you should listen on a boombox, and only with 15" woofers. I'm a huge metalhead myself, mostly death and doom metal, and the music benefits just as substantially by quality gear as any other genre.

I have an Odyssey Lorelei speakers driven by a Pass Labs X150 and a Modwright LS100 Pre.

I do agree with Nrenter saying: "stay away from horn, electrostats and planers" I would look into some of the towers by Axiom audio or Revel, some of the best metal I've heard. Have you decided yet, or made a short list?

One of my best friends, Earl Root (RIP) pretty well founded the metal scene here in the Twin Cities. He turned me on to a lot of metal, some of it excellently recorded.

One thing that came out in spades is if a speaker is really good at classical music, it will be good with metal too. I use the Classic Audio Loudspeakers model T-3, which uses dual 15" woofers and a field-coil powered midrange horn with a real beryllium driver (no breakups in the audio passband- its very smooth and fast). It plays metal great- it can shake the building easily. And it plays classical great too- it can shake the building easily. But it plays delicacy as well. Fields of Nephilim never sounded so good.