My music taste is very eclectic. I can be listening to Rage Against the Machine one minute and Diana Krall the next. Some of the music I listen to is very demanding and I like to crank it up at times and really get that palpable feel of kick drums and so on. First of all, are there Salk speakers that can do this?
Since everyone is recommending
their speakers, I'll recommend mine - The
Salk Veracity HT2-TL, they can take a beating and keep on ticking.
My music taste ranges from Daft Punk, Yello, The Future Sound of London to Sara Bareilles, Nora Jones, and the new Jorma Kaukonen & John Hurlbut album "The River Flows" (it is excellent by the way) and everything inbetween. The HT2-TL handles it all beautifully.
The HT2-TL doesn't get much press since the Song3 lineup arrived, unfortunately I haven't heard the Song3 yet so I don't know how loud it can rock. In almost 10 years I have never reached the HT2-TL's limit, I bail first. Bass response is deep and punchy, a couple of years ago I added a REL sub crossed over at 30 Hz and it takes the sound to the next level. The RAAL tweeter is clear, clean, bullet proof and it won't peel paint off the walls at super high volumes.
I would think the two Seas Excel W18's - 7" midrange drivers in the HT2-TL would go louder than the single 4" midrange in the Song3 but the W18's are also handling the bass too so there may be a trade off.
Mick heard my speakers do Pink Floyd just a week ago, I think I saw him jump when the bells came in on "Time" off of "Dark Side of the Moon".