Best Monitors for Rock N' Roll under $2500

Harbeth, Spendor. Too polite for some, not for me. Both minis are swell!

I vote for floorstanders as well. If you want to play rock and roll with impact, the speaker has to have some size to it. I just listend to the DVD of Eric Claptons Crossroads guitar festival, which is great by the way. I use Klipsch Epic CF3's. They have 2 neodyium magnet 10" drivers flanking a big ole horn. They are 100 dB efficient and can handle 250 watts continous with 1000 watt peaks. They play like concert monitors and will play loud and clean way past your ability to endure it. I sold my Audio Physic Tempo 3's for them and couldn't be happier. They have a clean undistorted sound and can easily handle concert volumes with tremendous impact and slam that just makes you smile. They also sound great with Rotel gear which is what I have as well.

How about NHT 3.3's ? Not a monitor but, as per the other posts here, you'd be asking a lot of any small speaker. I owned the 3.3's and beside needing some power they were an unbelievable speaker that compete with the best designs of today. At $1500-2000 used I can't imagine a better rock speaker.

it just occured to me that speakers shound have numbers and not names. rock and roll music isn't supposed to be played through a product with an odd name. it should be something like xr5's, non euroscouts

KRK Systems are very good along with those mentioned already,Bob