QUOTE(kInOzAwA @ Apr 24 2010, 09:43 PM)
but the reality is Aego M speaker was pawned by Klipsch Promedia on the sound for metal bro. That was true. I know why you said that Aego M was a great speaker because somebody (audiophiles maybe, who most of 'em not listening to 'TRUE' metal sound...) said it was good because of the clarity produced on the mid range sound.. Metal didn't need a good clarity sound especially on the vocal part if you're listening to brutal death metal, gothenburg-style death metal, dark metal, power metal, avantgarde or thrashcore, crossover, sludge-metal, gore grind, porno grind, gore-grind-death or metalcore-wannabe-deathmetal or doom death, or black thrash metal. Only Folkloric metal need acoustic speaker if you know the norwegian band like Storm. These type of music was said as an "obscure music", of which the vocal part with deep growl-deep-throat or grunt-throat didn't need to be exposed over the music itself... It should be set lower than music itself. So that's why i said that speaker was not a best setup for these type of metal music at all... Believe me bro, that Metal music didn't need a good acoustic speaker, because musically METAL stand for the music as a passion at first before the vocal itself. I was been into metal scene for 2 decades already since 1990 and i'm still listening up to a new school sound 'metalcore-wannabe-deathmetal' sound produced by In Flames culprit over the metalcore band like Unearth, Lamb of God, Neaera, Devils Wear Prada, I Killed The Prom Queen, Killswitch Engaged, The Black Dahlia Murder, etc. I know some good buddy from your place too in SP, like acong dark coleseum zine... farid sailendra, man berek and mr otai zan of spermblast band... hahahahahha

actually not all the speakers can be good for all the music... all based on the user preference and some may produce better than others but in this case, you need to listen to all the speakers if you want to tell this speaker is good or not good.. By testing on the shop didn't give any ultimate result because the speaker itself need to be set on different sound, equalizer and such... etc etc... so, it takes time to make a comparison, which one suit your ears and good for most of the users.

I wanna start this post by saying that I'm not and audiophile and I'm sorry if I didn't use the correct terms.

@bro kino
It's not your fault though when you think I'm saying something that I don't know. Actually I do know a bit about those speakers and those genres you're talking about. I didn't test all the speakers at shops, I simply borrowed them from my friends. My previous neighbor own that Klipsch and it's a great speaker but it didn't impress me, I borrowed it like for like 2 weeks and I played all kinda of songs that I like, I have to admit it sounds better than others when it comes to metal songs but like I said it doesn't have that integration between the satellites and the sub. It's like both were doing their job without caring much about the combination of the sound produced. The speaker was meant for bass heads with loud and piercing sound and I hate it. It's a love or hate speaker.
The same thing goes with Edifier S530D but with a decent satellites. Again klipsch is a winner if you think loud and piercing is nice for metal. Edifier brought something different to the table which made me favored them last time. S530D satellites were not piercing most of the time but shame when they didn't produce a more punchier sub. Klipsch and edifier are good for movies and games especially edifier. A lot more speakers like vs4121, atp3, creative SB series (but never got the chance to try the Gigaworks though), Sonic Gear(I'll buy this brand only if a guy point a gun to my head and force me to buy one), Logitech z5500(freaking awesome for movies, of course I have to take a couple of hours to complete the speaker placement), Logitech x230 (boleh la, haha~) and EP II (my 1st speaker, I love it though it's crappy

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What I really like is separation. I love to listen to a song and be able to separate the drum from the guitars if you know what I mean. Don't want it to be messy plus I'm not a fan of cloudy bass which will drown every other sound. Why do you think I always mention the satellites-sub integration part? Aego M answered my question of why and when to use the double bass in a song.
In my book, your idea is wrong when you said metal songs doesn't need clarity. Clarity is important, many confused with this clarity part when they think adding more clarity will make the song sound too noisy. Take that piercing sound off and replace it with crispier produced sound and I bet you'll feel less tiring listening to metal songs.
For example between the drum rolls, some drummer will hit the cymbals (which the bass drum will come together uniformly) before they shift to the toms and they'll do the same before shifting to the next tom and surprisingly with Aego M the sound didn't messed up between the rolls. (one of my speaker testing method) I can even tell you that the hit on cymbals are slightly uneven for it has such clarity and not clouded by bass and that piercing guitar riffs.
It's about perspective and it's subjective and even if I'm different, I'm not feeling the pressure cause I love it this way. hehe~
//Hurm.. Funny, for me I don't label any bands as culprits. As long as they produced a good material for me to hear, I'm happy and when they don't I'll search for other that can satisfy me. //
I did critic it (aego M) badly once, I even went as far as to say it's a gay speaker (dunno why I said that, hahaha)
I have the uttermost respect for you bro Kino but I hope you to understand that I just wanna point out my opinion, no hard feelings