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Speakers for bad rock recordings

I'm kind of stuck, my music collection is about 90% average and bad recordings, some very bad. I listen to a lot of rock, metal and punk. I live in an apartment too, which means I want them to be able to sound good at moderately low listening volume. I also like 'live' sounding speakers like my Klipsch's, but they do create a alot of fatigue.

I really like the way my Grado SR80's make even my worst metal recording sound good, so I was thinking maybe there's a speaker that's similar? Right now my amp is a Onkyo A-9555, which is neutral sounding and has about 85 real wpc.

I can only afford to spend about $600, maybe a little more if I have to.
mstapletn
jimburger
104 posts
 
JBL L100 or 4311,4312. Many rock recordings in the sixties and seventies were mastered on these. You also don't need much power to drive these.
sonycdman09
11 posts
 
Just give your CD's and tapes and records to me.
Them you could come over and listen to them
on my stereo! It ROCKS!
mcgarick
277 posts
 
What about the early, good version, of the Realistic Mach one's? Those, with a good el34 tube integrated, like an older ASL or even a NAD 3020A or a classic Sansui AU717, the Rock would sound punchy and great with those,just a thought.
Good luck
mstapletn OP
6 posts
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I thought about getting a tube amp but I've been told it's not good to leave the power on all the time, which I do often. I have a turntable but most of my listening is with flacs through a modded soundcard. EQ does help, but turning down the high freq's loses a lot of the music.

The OHM Walsh or Spendors sounds like a possibility. I'm not sure about really old speakers because of the degradation of parts over time. Big speakers wouldn't work well in my small apartment. The heresy's I have are ok, but the sounds seems to blend together, I'd like to have more separation.
saki70
907 posts
 
Yes , you do not want to leave a tubed device on all of the time . It will wear out the tubes prematurally .
Why do you 'tend' to do that ? Memory ?

Another alternative would be to try some non-tubed DAC's . You might find one that would allow you to tailer/color the output to your desires . Sort of like the tubes would do .

Good luck .
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