so many speakers

Wolf, love your take on drums. They are acoustic in the fullest sense and if hidden in playback, pray that it is due to the recording and not your speakers.

My Tonians "only" go down to 40Hz and drop off rapidly after that and yet drums come across most convincingly when recorded properly. The effect can be rather shocking at times.

Rok2id, love the analogy.

All the best,
Nonoise

Just reread my reply & it should have read"older Sonus Faber's".The newer models I have heard(Toy's,Veneer's)don't seem to suffer from this problem.

My Silverline Preludes are great midrange producers and get most of the punch of drums, but benefit big time from a REL sub (Q150e) that puts the mojo into drums (and everything else). A favorite John Scofield recording called "Grace Under Pressure" (killer Bill Frisell 2nd guitar stuff) has drummer Joey Baron smacking a gigantic bass drum here and there that seems to come outta nowhere...just cool.

With so many speakers on the market, I think the better assertion is that there are specific speakers that work better with specific hardware and cables.

As a result of a proper synergy above, will one enjoy a pleasing result across most,if not all, music genres.

Answering in the most useless way, yes there are. Musical instrument speakers work better for live music from an instrument rather then from a stereo. Although some have used them that way, for what we are thinking about the gamut of hifi speakers does quite well with all the variations. Some far better than others. Now we have to understand what "better" is. Thanks for enduring my reply.