which speaker is better suited for Rock and Roll

The best club I belong to, is ALL of you on Audiogon. Meant sincerely.  I listened to my Guarneri g5 yesterday for almost 3 hours. Not a doubt now why I bought them. Some buyers remorse over the cost,(never been a wealthy person) but at 72, you only live once to coin a phrase. Never sure until you get them home in their new environment. Turns out they were the perfect choice for my size room.(with my SVS SB 3000 sub). Crossed at 50 to 60 Hz at this time. I'm sure they still need burned in, but, sounded beautifully integrated, with the room and electronics. From, Judy Collins (send in the clowns) to Joan Bias, Diamonds and Rust, to Metallica, Nothing else matters, Funeral for a friend, Elton John,  Free bird, Simple Man, Skynyrd, and at the end finishing with Stairway to Heaven. All at about 90db. The speakers, LIKE POWER. PASS x.250.8 gave them just what they wanted, and amazingly  (shocked me) the gauge on the Amp never left class A. Don't know how that's possible? After listening for that 3 hour period the money issue seemed  to take a back seat!!!!!!!!!!!  I think I said as much as I can. Thanks again to you all for your help. Robert

86db sensitive, 2200 hz crossover, 2 way matchbox sized Guarnerio with a 5.5 mwoofer never ever came out on top for rock.

(It only came out on top per the sales guys selling that bull)

Comical.....

I never would have thought a Sonus Faber stand mount would have come out on top for rock music. Would love to hear them sometime. 

Congratulations. At your age (I am 73... I think) you definitely deserve to pamper yourself and celebrate your longevity and hearing. Having a system that epitomizes or exceeds  what you have wanted for much of your life is incredibly satisfying. I appreciate my system, my IT (full integrated Apple environment which I use to learn and write), my library, and my collection of other toys every day. It is great to be able to enjoy retirement... now if I could just avoid the news I would be even better. 

1. you liked them

2. you bought them

3. you own them

4,. you still like them (partly because of 2 and 3 but who cares)

5. enjoy!

I get to visit studios that record rock and roll in both LA and Nashville.  Most of the comments in this thread about "sound quality or character" - as though this drove the speaker decision making for studios - is not the way it was or is.  Studios need reliability above ALL else.   They are renting rooms to people every day by the hour and a failure means no rent, no income and no clients.  It could take days to get replacement parts and that means a very big loss indeed. 

JBL became what it was largely though the amazing voice coil tech they implemented before anyone else: dense, square wire voice coils that could handle enormous power and get rid of heat (that causes the driver to fail).  No one else had this tech back in the 60s, 70s except JBL so they won a lot of work.  Today JBL is long out of the studio business, its way to small and niche for them.  Way more live sound business, commercial sound reinforcement and home audio.  

The top studio speakers you see used in studios in LA and Nashville are ATC, Focal, Neumann and an assortment of other very small company brands.  Reliability is a top value but so is low distortion- so you can hear errors and details that otherwise are covered up with higher distortion speakers.  Places like Blackbird, East West, Abbey Road, Electric Lady all have both large and small ATC in most if not all their rooms.  Many mastering houses are ATC based like Sterling Mastering.  ATC has tech that makes their voice coils super reliable, so they get a lot of the work now.  

So if you want to use what is used to record rock and roll, ATC, Focal, Neumann.  

Brad