Vandersteen 2CE Signature Speakers

The idea that a speaker plays jazz and rock well, but not classical is crazy.  The requirements for a loudspeaker for all music is the same: "play it as accurately as possible with as little damage as possible for the money".  

You may be expecting the classical to sound good, but the dynamic range requires both of the following.

1) Very low noise floor in the room because the quiet parts will be masked and boring.
2)  Enough power to play the classical loud enough to lift all of the music out of the noise floor.

This is not as much of a  problem with jazz or rock, because the music tends to be played a higher levels without the very quiet passages that are so important with classical.  An accurate transducer is required in both cases and will play all types of music equally, IF they have the headroom.

What possible difference would any designer make to a speaker for one music or the other sound 'better or worse' mystifies me to this date, but some folks seem to take this myth for granted and lose out on some great audio because of it. 

I have spoken to many top speaker designers about this as it's been perpetuated since the beginning of audio as we know it.

I'm using 2Cs with  Krell 300W/4 ohms in a 14x14 dedicated room. Didn't sound wonderful until placed room treatments on all four walls and ceiling. Plus speaker position and listening chair position are critical. Also the dedicated AC line helped too.
Hope this helps, I think they are wonderful speakers.

Tom

Thanks Tom.  Set up is critical for all speakers, but often times even a dealer isn't set up properly as they move things around so much.  Once set, you can forget it and ENJOY great speakers that will play anything well. ;)

@ctsooner , agreed! Speakers don't care what genre is playing :)!

Teh headphone and IEM world is all about getting multiple top can's/CIEM's for different music.  I just shake my head.  Everyone is so concerned about matching cables to 'tune' their system.  Again, just get a great cable that is natural (this is why I love the Audioquest line).  If you have the right components you will hear THEM!  If you need to tune things, then go get the right components first.  Any designer will tell you that, even teh cable guys.  Just logic to me.