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I've always felt the same way

Centaurus:

My speaks are a DIY effort. I am currently tri-amping using 64-bit DSP crossover technology (Thuneau Allocator) with phase correction (Thuneau Arbitrator). They have Focal drivers and are extremely revealing. The 10" woofers are light polyglass cones in a sealed box.

This being said, these speakers do brass, strings, jazz, bluegrass, guitar, vocals, big band, intrumental... you name it. The detail and "rendering power" is absolutely stunning with these components.

Trade off?

Rock. Metal. Rockin blues. >>> NO ROCK!!
Dance metal, electronica >>> NO THUMP AND BUMP!

This is because:

1) I chose a sealed box design for the woofs for maximum accuracy (sealed box designs do not have a transient overhang like ported boxes do and are "quicker" transient wise). Dance music sounds benign on these speakers, which is fine because I've never sat and LISTENED to dance music!! :o)

2) The mids and highs are very revealing and make highly compressed (and often poorly recorded) rock tracks sound... exactly as they are: terrible.

3) I have 12V726S 12.5" Polyglass woofer cabinets I can use to augment the bass using an active crossover any time I feel the 10" sealed box mids in the towers are "falling short" in the bass department. (I am finding the "need for the really low bass" to be diminishing as I approach 40 now...)

I prefer hard rock and grinding blues on my three-way Electrovoice studio monitors. Now THOSE things rock with 500W/channel driving them! They thump, bump, grind and scream. They're loud and in your face and still very quick and quite accurate. Are they flat? Likely not. Are they forgiving? Moreso than my Focal towers - likely due to the fact they're not quite as revealing. They have a boat-load of SLAM though! We're talking IMPACT here! :o)

I really don't listen to that much hard rock or "grinding blues" or "rock/blues" and I gave up metal in my twenties (I found the anger levels in the music no longer appropriate for me).

SO. That being said, for some (who NEED their hard rock/metal/rocking blues) my system WOULD be a compromise. But for me, having a speaker that "does it all" would be more of a compromise.

The trick with speakers, IMHO, is to buy speakers that are optimal for the TYPE of music you listen to the most - even have a second system to cover the next largest "portion" of your preference set. "One speaker that does it all" is a fine notion, but I find it to be somewhat limiting, expensive, and needlessly difficult!!

Cheers,
Presto

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