Best speakers for classic rock

Again:

The idea that a speaker is the best for a certain genre of music is one of the biggest myths in audio. Is ’classic’ rock from the 50s, 60s, or 70s? Or, if one is a bit younger, does that mean 80s and some 90s?

I actually had someone ask me what the best speaker for downtempo 80s was. I *think* he was actually serious about it. (Downtempo 80s might be on the 4AD label and recorded by John Fryer. Or maybe not...)

Seriously, what makes a speaker good at playing an original pressing of Electric Ladyland will make it good at playing classical and ethnic folk music as well. The speaker does not have taste and does not care what your taste is.

Again??? Spoken like a simpleton....over and over

What’s your real story here dude?

Did you blow all your cash on a single pair of speakers (’cost no object’ or something?) and you’re trying to convince yourself somehow that it is simply the best thing ever for every kind of music out there? Deep down, are you regretting blowing all your cash on 1 pair of speakers and trying to cope somehow?

Or do you just have 3 audiophool records on repeat all day long? Yeah, one pair of speakers would work freaking brilliant for the 3 audiophool records on repeat, i suppose! Gearheads with 3 audiophool records on repeat!..(triple facepalm)...I sincerely hope you’re not one of them.

On a different note, some of have us may have a very eclectic taste in music. We may listen to all kinds of genres/instruments from all over the world (instruments you may have never heard of in your life and so on). Some of us may play different instruments and we just know that certain types of speaker designs just don’t cut it/sound right for certain types of instruments. One pair of speakers just doesn’t cut it for everything, no matter if its ’cost no object’ or not!

In any case...Good luck with your 1 pair of brilliant unicorn flippin speakers that worked brilliantly for everything (apparently)!!

Vintage Cerwin Vega from the 1970s.  I don't think Rock and Roll will ever sound better than it did in our college dorm suites in the late 1970s.   Of course, you had to be there.

Jerry

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Altec #19's

@carlsbad2 , good point about Cerwins. I had AT-15s in the late 80s and listened mostly to 70s music on them. I then went to more of a "hifi" speaker with a Mirage M460 in 1991 which sounded great and were better hauling around from place to place in my 20s and 30s. But while I loved the better overall sound (but w/ less bass) of the Mirages, I still missed the Cerwins very much. 

When I replaced the Mirages in 2021 after 30 years, I made a mistake buying Spatial M3 speakers. While they did and do sound great, they didn't do hard rock very well. Honestly part of that was an under-treated room but they still didn't rock as hard as I wanted. They sounded phenomenal with "regular" rock like Fleetwood Mac, etc. but has soon as you have heavy and screaming electric guitars, I think the low crossover tweeter couldn't deal with that very well.

FF to 6 months ago I now have what I consider the ultimate, hifi, 15" Cerwin-Vegas; Volti Rivals - and am thrilled with them. I know people will say this is thier last speaker but I'm very well convinced, the Rivals will be mine. As noted above I don't go through speakers very often anyway.