Best Speaker for classical music

Hmmm, I would lean to the Rockports, Vienna Acoustics, Magnepan 30, or Joseph Audio.  I have an admitted bias against Wilson and have listened to them many times.  I have only heard one system with Wilsons that I liked.  Similar issues with B&W.  The only advise I can give is to listen to some violin music to determine if you can live with the upper frequencies. 
  

Fully restored Apogee Diva or Full range if your room is big enough.
Its sound stage and imaging is remarkable, very suitable for full orchestration music. 

Classical music is a far more demanding genre

It isn't. It is just as demanding as any other genre though. One recording that can bring most systems to their knees is the Soria series RCA recording of Verdi's Requiem (2nd track first side). But another recording that can do that with ease is the Vertigo white label pressing of Black Sabbath's Paranoid (first cut side one). Taiko drumming on Sheffield is certainly not western classical music either, but you need everything right in the speaker to play it.


Again, what makes a speaker good for one genre makes it good for another. You can't point to anything about classical music that makes it particularly harder to reproduce.

@atmasphere ,

’Again, what makes a speaker good for one genre makes it good for another.’


If only all loudspeakers were created equal.

Then we could buy the delicate Cerwin Vega CL -15 for those Ashkenazy piano concertos and the bombproof Harbeth SLH5s for those full blast Motorhead live concerts and simply not notice any difference.



’You can’t point to anything about classical music that makes it particularly harder to reproduce.’


How about the following?

The widest variety of instrumental textures and vocal ranges?
String, woodwind, brass and percussion.
Soprano and alto, baritone and tenor.
Often all of them at once!

The greatest dynamic range?
Classical (along with jazz) has probably fared best throughout the loudness wars.

The most meticulous recording quality?
For years and years classical was the ONLY genre that many engineers and producers paid careful attention to.

Even today it’s the classical fans that tend to complain the most about the reduction of digital radio bitrates.

I suspect it’s also the classical fans that are the happiest with their lot musically.

So much choice and variety and a history that goes back centuries.