Do they make Speakers For Rap/Rock

I had a pair of Hales Revelation 3's that could rock really hard. My current Aerial 9's do as well.

I have a REL Storm III sub that I turn on when I want to pressurize the room.

A pair of Soliloquy 5.0's and a small sub worked wonders for me a few years back.

How big is your room? How loud is loud? Club loud? Or just "can't have a conversation without shouting" loud? The club stuff is cheap to buy -- a powered pair of EV's can be had for a few hundred bucks. Check out the website for Platinum Records to see the brands. The latter can be achieved with any number of dynamic speakers, especially if augmented by a sub, but then the quality comes with a stiffer pricetag.

And there are some excellent recordings of hip hop and rap. Not much excellent music (some, for sure) but the recording technology isn't worse than any other recording technology.

YMMV,

Rich

As one commentator noted, the better the gear, the less likely you are to notice it's loud. Crappy systems add distortion and that leads to higher perceived loudness.

Time to intereject some controversy...

Shouldn't a speaker be able to reproduce all types of music equally well?

a friend of mine who is a member on agon is currently developing a speaker system specificaly for rapp music,the speaker system is going to be called "the pimp daddy" & it will feature ten 18 inch woofers & one horn tweeter in each cabinet,the speaker will also have different finishes for the waf factor,the finishes will be purple velvet,red vinyl & chrome.

Yeah. They're called headphones.

I think it's interesting to think about how loud our systems play at their loudest - do we really know the db level? I know I don't - every once in a while, my house empties on a weekend night and I watch a rock concert DVD at (what feels like) rock concert levels. If I was the whole disc, my ears are ringing afterwards - a sure sign that I'm treating myself right. I have no idea what the db reading would be.

At one point, I was researching ATC active speakers and was talking to somebody (a dealer) who was saying that the 150's would do 120db, continuous, and that 120db was what a jet engine sounds like at close range. I've often wanted to walk around outside with my stereo up "loud" and see what, if anything, you could hear outside. The notion of going outside to see if you could hear the jet engine in my basement sounded good - I have to believe if I really had a jet engine going in my basement, that I'd be getting calls from my neighbors.