I'm confused - Different music...different speakers?

OP, thanks for drawing attention to The Allman Brother’s Live at Fillmore East. Steve Guttenberg of Audiophiliac recently mentioned that recording. Your post got me to listen to the hi-rez version on Qobuz to verify if it was or was not the recording. Forgot how good that record was. For a live rock recording from 1971 it doesn’t get much better than that one. It is not the recording.

I concur with the live feel for rock. When you go to a see a band the guitarist is playing through a stack of 12" speakers and the bass player 15". Real drums have massive attack. A HiFi system for rock should have size in both speaker and amplifier but in my opinion should not be too "transparent". I recently attended a demo of the KEF Muon hosted by KEF's owner. They had the scale but I thought were maybe too transparent - I don't really want to feel like my ear is inside Don Henley's throat. So the remaining question is whether one needs 3 systems - a dynamic one for rock and cinema, a smooth/imaging one for jazz and a large soundstage/transparent one for classical.

@ghdprentice looking forward to experimenting with the REL
@georgeab this is also my memory - epic recording and alas....my system doesn't do it justice
@asiaaudiosoc interesting and I suppose that is my first post and my "confusion"
Maybe it's super simple in this way: If I want to here a piano in a cafe - that is the volume I should be listening at, no more and no less.
If I want to listen to a band in Madison Square Garden, I think it is clear the db's need to go up. And the reverse is true
I remember seeing Joni Mitchell as the kick off for a Bob Dylan concert in MSG back in the 1990's...it was rather sad. As great as she is, her solo voice just wasn't enough to fill and vibrate the space...it all felt lost.
Maybe I'll buy a pair of headphones for the Rock n roll stuff......
Thanks again Everyone

Did anyone mention speaker positioning/room acoustics? 
 

A lack of “slam” may be related to a dip in response around those frequencies. Plenty of financially reasonable methods to measure what you are hearing. 
 

Oh I've been playing with speaker positioning alright. I just last night moved them closer to the front wall (2 feet instead of 3 feet). The bass response is improved. My listening space (my Living Room) looks across the Hudson River and the Palisades...so yes we are unapologetically making compromises regarding room treatment.