Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K

It’s obvious that a few here have never really listened to Rock, otherwise they would not be recommending Vandersteen, Volti and other speakers that were voiced with Classical and Jazz.

@stereo5 

This is nonsense. Speakers are not 'voiced' using a certain form of music, not if there is a competent designer involved! They may prefer a certain genre, but that won't influence the design for the reasons I presented earlier.

Inefficient speakers struggle because the have thermal compression associated with the voice coil of the drivers involved.  It hurts them with any form of music so isn't rock specific.

@atmasphere Wrote:

Inefficient speakers struggle because the have thermal compression associated with the voice coil of the drivers involved. It hurts them with any form of music so isn’t rock specific.

True! Heat Dissipation and Power Compression in Loudspeakers. See article below:

Mike

I would look for what you can try and return. 15K is a lot of money for speakers, you can get awesome speakers for 6K. If you look at used, you can pretty much consider speakers in the 30K range. 

such as 

http://speakerchoices.com/

+1 for JBL 4367s, they are killer for rock n metal.

Find a pair of used JBL 4412 (not the 4412a) monitors. Many rock songs, especially those done on the West Coast, were monitored on the 4412s. So, they give you the experience the recording engineer had. The L100's are similar.