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What are the best speakers for 80's hard rock?

Hello folks!
I want suggestions for best speakers and amp for 80's hard rock music. Many bad recordings, so many high end speakers (and amps) sounds very harsh and hard, with little bass. It's more important to me that my stereo can play bad recordings in a good way, than play good recordings in a fantastic way.

I want very laidback and soft treble, but I want a bass that goes deep and alo is very punchy.

I know many people say that I should here on vintage speakers. But I want new speakers. Any price range!

Thanks for suggestions!
rockpanther
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audiolabyrinth
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Hi Wolf_Garcia, I got a good laugh out of your post, the cerwin vega V-15E speaker's were way more transparent than any home use cerwin vega speaker's, I did not like the home use speaker's at all, I was still young enough after the divorce, that absolutly, I did many drunk dancing with awsome looking fefe's, why not, had my own new place all to my self, with no one to answer too back in the 90's.
czarivey
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distortion produced by design and the rest of music of 80's hard rock in general poorly recorded. that's why. what's the point having invested huge for a few songs vs. the rest of bands?
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mapman
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I know a lot of people who listened solely to rock tended to like Cerwin Vega yes because of the large 12" bass drivers and price. I just know they always finished dead last in the auditions for customers for me.

THey also used to like the old Realistic Mach One speakers for similar reasons which were lets just say not that good.

Big speakers with big drivers was often all it took to make a sale to a rocker, no doubt.
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atmasphere
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distortion produced by design and the rest of music of 80's hard rock in general poorly recorded. that's why. what's the point having invested huge for a few songs vs. the rest of bands?

Sorry, this comment is nonsense. For starters, rock going back the 1950s has had 'distortion by design'- that is the sound of an electric guitar, which continues to this day.

Like any genre, 80s rock has some excellent and some poor recordings as does rock from any other period.
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audiolabyrinth
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great point Ralph of Atmasphere.
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