which excels at Rock and Roll


Room is 14X14' No treatments, but, room currently sounds great. Amp PASS X250.8, Fritz Carbon 7se bookshelves, LA-4 preamp, SVS SB3000 sub, Bricasti M5 streamer, Meitner DAC, only Rock and Roll, 85 or so DB   Considering used, Platimon VC 1, Arendal 15-28,  Marten  Oscar, Acora MRB-1, and Small tower, Devore Fidelity Gibbon super 9. There are others, but, I believe these would be the top contenders, USED?  Any and all responses welcomed. Love my FRITZ and won't sell. Just considering the above. Thanks, Robert TN

robshaw

I have to disagree that components equally reproduce music of all genre. That is the ideal, but in reality it is not true.

Let us consider this track by thin lizzy (one of my test tracks) with Brian Downey on drums doing his thing back during his younger days. Play this track at 100db+ and you couldn’t for the life of me (or for another 50 lifetimes) tell me these 2 speakers are genre agnostic and will fulfill this track the same way.

@ghdprentice @deep_333 The issue you are dealing with is that of a limited sample size. Rock covers quite a range and for every recording that seems best reproduced by a certain speaker I can find one that flies in the face of it. Classical is every bit as demanding as rock (with similar sound pressures); rock requires every bit the resolution as required by classical or jazz or folk or electronia. 

The logical fallacy known as a limited sample size is causing your conclusions to be false. Its a very common conclusion! But if you have a decent speaker (IOW, deep_333, the recording you chose is showing up one speaker more than the other) then all genres will play equally well. If the speaker is lacking, all genres will play equally lacking, although as you have found, some recordings will come through better or suffer more according to that lack. But it will not be universal across the genre! 

I saw one person asking (seriously) what speaker favored downbeat 80s new wave once... Sheesh!

If one is looking for the recording to sound the way the audio engineer intended, find the largest, most neutral speakers that don't overwhelm your listening space and supply them with the maximum power allowed. If you are looking for more punch, do as the professionals do and add a Behringer SX3040 sound exciter.

I've heard the Marten Oscar Duos and definitely preferred them to my Fritz, which I loved, and then auditioned the Parker Duos and the mids on those were amazing, so that's what I went with. 

As for agnostic speakers, I've had a number of different speakers in my system, including Harbeth Super HL7's, and while great sounding for many smoother genres, those Harbeths are not designed with rock music or reggae in mind. 

I have a MA7900 McIntosh int amp @200 wpc and a pair of reformed JBL L100 T's reconditioned , refoamed and Crossover Chef crossover's with a room your size. With a good high end SACD player like my Denon DCD-A110 classic rock will transports me into the next dimension 

I had a pair of DeVore Gibbon 8 speakers.  They are definitely NOT for Rock.  Jazz and classical they excel, rock NOT.  I drove from RI to Annapolis Maryland and back in one day to pick them up a couple of days before New Years in 2008 or 2009, my memory isn’t that clear.  Hooked them up the next morning as I got home after midnight and what a huge disappointment.  I really wanted to like them, added a sub but they were just too soft for Rock.  I kept them for a little over a year but ended selling them for what I paid.  They were gorgeous speakers but didn’t play Pink Floyd well at all.  One of my systems is strictly for Rock and I use the JBL L100 Classic speakers and a single SVS subwoofer.  I drive them with a 200wpc McIntosh integrated amp.  Match made in Heaven.