Progressive Rock

for what it's worth, both pink floyd and peter gabriel use ATC active monitors at home and in their studios. why not listen to the albums on the same speakers upon which they're mixed/mastered?

have a look at my system - while i'm by no means a prog freak, i do own moody blues, rush, peter gabriel, pink floyd, syd barrett, etc and they sounds amazing (as does everything else)

Did I build this for Prog Rock? - I built it for everything, and Prog Rock is always close by, and I don't have to make excuses.
While my speakers may not be what you think of as Prog Rock big-thump speakers, with the sub up-a-bit, and the crossover set a little higher than normal, DSOTM sounds quite outrageous thank you.
With the monster image that comes from the ML's, as well with how fast they are with transients from synthesizers (try some Brain Salad Surgery), at warp volume, life is good.
Now, if only they had "welcome back my friends..." on DVD.

DREAM THEATER RULES! Anyway, I play ALOT of
prog rock on drums, RUSH, ELP, DREAM THEATER, YES,
GENISIS, etc. Right now, my system is known as a
MID-FI. (4)Kenwood Basic M2A power amps,
(4)Sony ES CX90ES 200 disc CD changers,
(2)Sony ES JA3ES Minidisc recorders WITH
2 mic inputs on the front of EACH of them,
for recording my drums of coarse,
Pioneer Elite C-91 Pre-Amp,
Yamaha MX-1000 Power Amp, as well as other stuff.
Feel free to experiment with other gear,
although the DAC`s in the Sony CD Changers are
VERY GOOD, it sounds like a LP,
the signal-to-noise is 116db.
And Infinity speakers.

Prog can be damn near anything (depending on who you ask). Alot of it will sound pretty hashy (not a drug reference) on any high resolution system. As stated earlier, this is often because of analog transfer crimes. Most of the RIO (Rock In Opposition) arm of prog (Univers Zero, Henry Cow (start w/ Leg end) Thinking Plague, Nimal, Hamster Theatre, Curlew, Blast, Octavo, Volapuk, Miriodor, Present) sound pretty delicious on any decent rig. Some exceptions to the old "it sounds horrible on cd rule",: Kollektiv/ 1st... Embryo/ Rocksession... Guru Guru/ Kanguru... PFM/ Per un Amico... Terje Rypdal/ Whenever I Seem to be Far Away...New Trolls/ Ut... Goblin/ Roller... Kraan/ Live 74... Wolf/ Saturation Point... Thirsty Moon/ You'll Never Come Back.. (Most all the Can stuff is so great that fidelity almost doesn't matter, haven't heard the new remasters yet, any opinions out there?). Some newer stuff that sounds great: Ganger/ Hammock Style... Tortoise... Anglegard... Uzva... Alamaailman Vasarat... Ui... Crater... Dues ex Machina... Tipographica... Nels Cline... DFA... Cul de Sac (ECIM). You'll want something not painfully bright that can deliver high quality thud and good textural detail, but it's not easy to get really get specific about what gear works best since there's such a huge range of engineering priorities out there under the big prog rock umbrella.

Listen to lots of prog on my system. Since I'm going to see the Flower Kings this weekend been playing lots of stuff with Roine Stolt. This type of music has never sounded so enjoyable since I got a tube amp!