What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?


I know totally blasphemy question here on Audiogon. But you like what you like, right? Anyway, I know most metal music is totally compressed and recorded horrible (aka Metallica) however there is a new age of metal bands out there that are starting to change that (Opeth started with Blackwater Park). So what speakers out there can take the pounding of a double bass drum kit hitting at full throttle and give the roar of metal guitar justice. There has to be a set up that would make Glen Tipton turn his head and say hell ya!
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I do not know your Budget, however, you asked what speaker would do what you ask the best, first off, the sensativity needs to be good, and you need alot of air movement for woofer size, here is a speaker that has fast woofers and a 96 sensativity rating, you like double bass, well then here you go, The JBL DD-Everest 67000 speakers, they have 2 15" woofers, do 28hz to 50 khz, they are horn speakers, so you get the the impact of metal music the way it was meant to sound like, ever seen dynamic speakers on stage at a live concert?, of course not!, the metal bands use horn speakers for many reasons, the 2 15" woofers here will provide the seperation of 2 bass drums quite well, this JBL speaker should take you where you want to go, A royal Flush so to speak of, Enjoy fellow metal head, long live Rock-n-Roll!
I'm 47 my self, april, I will be 48, their is some new metal to go around these days, check out pop evil, and Lucuna Coil, also Hale Storm, not bad for these days, talking about a good kick it with heavy metal amp, get a Krell 700 cx stereo or krell 750cx mono blocks, I gurantee bass impact slam factor here for heavy metal, ha, he, ha.
I remember my first rock alblum, it was the first Kiss alblum, then led zepplin, Heart, etc.., I never looked back after that, Damn, then I turned into a heavy metal and Rock singer for the most of my life after those alblums, scorpion's, motley crue, pantera,Dream Theatre, Rush was my first concert, man was I ruined!, when I seen Neil peart play the drums, I was like, he's the man!, I noticed everyone was useing JBL stack stage speakers then, now many years later, the top JBL speakers and many others are what kick's for metal to me.
One thing that came out in spades is if a speaker is really good at classical music, it will be good with metal too. I totally agree with you Atmasphere, my speaker's are incredible with classical music, slip a metal music cd in, and the sound performance is indeed as good, I am very glad you posted your impression's here,not many would believe me if I made that statement, cheers.
Speakers and electronics really don't care what the signal is. If they are good at their job they will not be genre-specific. Its really that simple- if a speaker is better at one thing than another, its not a very good speaker., quote by Atmasphere.
Damn Ralph, you are a mind reader!, here we go again, I agree with you 100% my friend, happy Listening.
Hi Koslekt1, check out Volbeat-Hang man's body count, this song rock's, get back to me hear after you listen to this song, tell me what you think of it, crank it up!
Atmasphere, Hey, Try listing to avengeged sevenfold- Hail to the King, this song is recorded very decent, Rock's really good, incredible actually, tell me what you think about it, please listen to the whole song with you set-up, should bring a smile to your face, Happy Listening.
atmasphere, actually, they are a new band of about 6 years of being famous, they have a huge fan base, sale out concert's world wide, yes, the music does remind me of old school a little, what did you think of the recording quality?, it's not compressed at all to me.
can you play flight of the bumlebe?, I play board'sas amutuer, vocal's is my fortey, most of my life I was a pro musician, all my money came from being in a band all the way until I moved to bama.
Atmasphere, yea, I know, I was saying the bubble bee song on keyboards or piano, my band back in the day played original's, however, for cover tune's we played Dream Theatre, we had a good following, a semi big, on the verge of big time, offered marriage to a model that was the demise of it all for me!, same ole story, the relationship did not go that way, the band parted way's, one guy was from sweden, everyone else was from all over the usa, we were base out of Florida, cheers.