which excels at Rock and Roll

Next thing you know,..he might claim his 'genre agnostic' tube amps might just work great for every kind of speaker I have and my entire music collection spanning every genre available.

The ASR guys and their 10 dollar chip amps with off the charts sinad might do it too.

I should only buy the asr chinese chip amps and atmasphere tubes. It's all I ever needed apparently!

Ralph Karsten (atmasphere) always makes his above argument. And while in theory it may be correct, in practice it is not. Just one example: If you want to play AC/DC or The Ramones at 100dB, the QUAD ESL is a bad choice; a pair of them is not going to last very long if you do.

I agree with Atmasphere in that I have always believed that if a speaker is better with certain types of music than with others, it only points out that the speaker is weak in some way.  A really good speaker will perform equally well with all kinds of music.  Choosing a speaker for one kind of music is only surrendering to it's shortcomings elsewhere.

If you want a speaker that is great for Rock, beyond being a really good speaker to begin with, the only real requirement is that it be great at very high volumes.

My 2 cents

Bill

Wrong, you could end up with cost no object speaker that’s just a bit too laid back without the throw, for example (been there, done that)....and not a in your face grunt that works best for rock.

"A really good speaker"...mostly exists in the imaginative plane.

When a guy maxed out his wallet, he imagines that he’s got a "really good speaker" that did it all...how else could it be? his wallet depletion had to count for something? 

I agree with Atmasphere in that I have always believed that if a speaker is better with certain types of music than with others, it only points out that the speaker is weak in some way.  A really good speaker will perform equally well with all kinds of music.  Choosing a speaker for one kind of music is only surrendering to it’s shortcomings elsewhere.

If you want a speaker that is great for Rock, beyond being a really good speaker to begin with, the only real requirement is that it be great at very high volumes.

My 2 cents

Bill

@wbs +1

Mike

Regardless of what you get, please don't blow out your ears unless you are already an old fart whose hearing rolls off at 5kHz. Listening loud is fun - in moderation. Listening loud for long periods of time is akin to looking at the sun with the naked eye. 

Take care of yourself if you want to enjoy listening for a lifetime, or you'll end up like me with tinnitus and believe me, hearing a continuous 8kHz tone for the rest of your life takes a lot of the enjoyment out of everything. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking into trying the new Lenire tinnitus treatment, but that costs about $4K or so and comes with no guarantee of success, money I'd rather be spending on a new DAC.