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MrBoat
Audioholic Ninja
And how do those other speakers and amp sound with your chosen music? I still think this is a room and speaker type vs. popular music issue. That kind of music sounds best on Pioneer, Cerwin Vega, JBL etc. from that era than it does on neutral and revealing speakers. And don't take the word of audiophile/speaker designers who have lived on a steady diet of classical music, either. They won't be wrong in saying that their chosen speakers should play back everything accurately, but much of that music was mixed to sound good on mainstream speakers, car stereos, portable radios and affordable headphones and it really does sound good there.
Perhaps do some digging on what the studios/engineers that were mixing that classic rock on back then. You will find many were using JBL L100s and such. Speakers that do not pass the smell test these days and are even considered horrible by todays measurement driven audiophile and engineer standards.
Is why I keep older, less snooty speakers in the house as well. My old 15" Fisher Studio Standard speakers absolutely jam with that kind of music. The little 3-way JBLs in the photo I posted are a center of the road type and are more forgiving. The 12" Tempests behind them are very flat, neutral and revealing speakers that I have to EQ significantly for that era of rock. I basically have to cut the nuts off of anything from about 2Khz on up with those on all but the best recordings. But they sure sound beautiful on well recorded music.
