What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?

"That's just the way it is, regardless (for the most part) of the music genre. If you want electronia to sound its best with all the bass impact, you need exactly the same thing."

That is true.

Of course its always hard to define what is good and what isn't. In this case its better to talk about performance in regards to ability to deliver the most challenging musical passages at high volume. You will probably almost pay more for better performance on a larger scale, but what sounds "good" or not is subjective and way more up in the air.

If you are reproducing music only on a small scale and with limited volume, then the world is your oyster. :-)

JBL-LSR 6332?

Well, I guess classical is only well-reproduced on dynamic cone speakers, because I've never heard metal well-reproduced on anything other than that. It's gonna break the hearts of Quad and Maggie owners that their speakers aren't that good.

The JBL LSR is a good speaker for heavy metal. I know someone who had them, and I heard them before he sold them. He played a Metallica album, and it sounded really good. However, he had subwoofers going at the same time.

There seems to be tons of suggestions for "Pro=type" speakers (for lack of a better word), like JBL and Klipsch horn speakers. I've never personally tried this kind of speaker, and am a little reluctant due to the lack of low end production. I'm not really sure how speakers having 12" or even 15" drivers can have such a disappointing low frequency extension. For instance the Klipsch Heresy, an almost universally-loved speaker is listed at 58-20,000 Hz (±3dB). How can this me possible for a 12"? Am I missing something here? I would hate to buy a speaker with a monster driver like that, and huge size overall, and still have to invest $1000 on a SVS or REL subwoofer.