Stenheim speaker is it right for metal?

[Pat781]

Hi there!

I'm on looking for "right" speaker for listening dynamic music like heavy metal or electronic (like Yello) and jazz with vocal also in my list of preferable music.
Stenheim Alumine Five is an desired option that I want, but I'm not sure if speaker like this good for kind of music that I'm listening to and right choice for me, so if some owners here can bright me up - many thanks!
I saw here thread about Steinheim Reference ultimate two - but unfortunately I'm not there

 

[Kofi Baffour]

Hi there!

I'm on looking for "right" speaker for listening dynamic music like heavy metal or electronic (like Yello) and jazz with vocal also in my list of preferable music.
Stenheim Alumine Five is an desired option that I want, but I'm not sure if speaker like this good for kind of music that I'm listening to and right choice for me, so if some owners here can bright me up - many thanks!
I saw here thread about Steinheim Reference ultimate two - but unfortunately I'm not there

Heavy metal is anything but dynamic. Metal is a genre that lacks dynamic as everything sounds loud.

There are dynamic sounding metal albums but most of those are from early 80s, some 90s and some recently but nearly 90% of the genre Is music without a clear crescendo and decrescendo.

So unless you listen to strictly less compressed metal, there's no need to be fretting.

Next is the idea that there's a speaker for metal. Unless you're buying all the different speakers that were used to mix these different albums, it is a fruitless venture to think a singular speaker is designed for metal.

All you need is a speaker with good enough tonal balance to reproduce the media you're playing as intelligibly as possible whilst sounding fun to you.

The Alumine 5, which I have demoed extensively and it was a bit smoothed over especially with harmonics presentation of cymbal airiness. There was some honk to female vocals but that same honk translated to a more forward in the mix guitar and so on. So maybe it will work for you but I'd rather a much more tonally balanced speaker.

The Alumine is good but not special for the demanding price

Also they have pretty narrow vertical dispersion so you ear must be on the tweeter axis vertically

Finally, I tapped on the cabinet and there's a bit of resonant feedback which I didn't expect for its mass.

Overall decent speaker but not anything.

For that cost, you can get pretty a pretty incredible setup

 

[DasguteOhr]

There are some really good metal recordings out there, even today, but the speakers don't suit them at all; they're too boring and emotionless for me. If you want to be emotionally involved, I'd recommend this Speaker Revival atalante 7 evo they play every kind of music so that you will be captivated.
https://revivalaudio.fr/atalante-7-evo/

Listen to his channel with headphones; they make about 30 videos with these speakers. I find them superbly tuned; never analytical, the foot-tapping factor always comes through.

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[sbnx]

Hi there!

I'm on looking for "right" speaker for listening dynamic music like heavy metal or electronic (like Yello) and jazz with vocal also in my list of preferable music.
Stenheim Alumine Five is an desired option that I want, but I'm not sure if speaker like this good for kind of music that I'm listening to and right choice for me, so if some owners here can bright me up - many thanks!
I saw here thread about Steinheim Reference ultimate two - but unfortunately I'm not there

Of course horn speaker will play rock, metal, EDM, and the like with no problems. If you are wanting a more box-like speaker then perhaps look at Vivid Audio. This speaker excels at these genre's of music.

 

[gordon]

Seems pretty dynamic to me.

 

[DasguteOhr]

One of best recordings of last 15 years...tear your home apart

 

[Al M.]

Of course horn speaker will play rock, metal, EDM, and the like with no problems. If you are wanting a more box-like speaker then perhaps look at Vivid Audio. This speaker excels at these genre's of music.

As do mine, PranaFidelity Dhyana.

For heavy metal (and rock in general) you need, among others

1) great weight and speed in upper and mid bass as well as good low bass
2) an open, unpolished clarity in the midrange that allows electric guitars to have the immediate, raw sonic impact that they should have

My speakers have all that. In addition, low bass is supported by subs.

 

[Al M.]

One of best recordings of last 15 years...tear your home apart

Wow, 317 million views on YouTube.

 

[italia]

Heavy metal is anything but dynamic. Metal is a genre that lacks dynamic as everything sounds loud.

There are dynamic sounding metal albums but most of those are from early 80s, some 90s and some recently but nearly 90% of the genre Is music without a clear crescendo and decrescendo.

Since we're making assumptions, I'm going to assume you haven't listened to much metal music produced in the last 25 years. If you did, I believe you would find plenty of dynamic metal music today. Be well

 

[italia]

One of best recordings of last 15 years...tear your home apart

Seeing Avenged Sevenfold next month - can't wait!

 

[Kofi Baffour]

Since we're making assumptions, I'm going to assume you haven't listened to much metal music produced in the last 25 years. If you did, I believe you would find plenty of dynamic metal music today. Be well

loud isn't the same as dynamic. But yes there are dynamic metal albums today. From the likes of Opeth, Horrendous, Trivium, Idle Heirs, Deafhaven and others but most metal leans heavily on the "wall of sound aesthetic more than dynamic crescendos and decrescendos)

Loud albums may have microdynamics but they lack shifting macrodynamics and tbh that is the most important type of dynamics. When everything is mushed together and played loud, it doesnt mean it is dynamic

 

[DasguteOhr]

Wow, 317 million views on YouTube.

When the album "Hail to the King" came out, I played it on repeat every day in my car on the way to work. A neckbreaker in a positive sense.
"five finger death punch"(name from kill bill) makes good recordings too

 

[ADGold]

Seems pretty dynamic to me.

Big fan of this band. Incredible drummer. I am not usually a fan of death metal (particularly the vocal style) but the songwriting and musicianship of Deafheaven is outstanding.

 

[gordon]

Big fan of this band. Incredible drummer. I am not usually a fan of death metal (particularly the vocal style) but the songwriting and musicianship of Deafheaven is outstanding.

I feel exactly the same way.

 

[italia]

most metal leans heavily on ...

Thank you for at least altering your speech from "everything sounds loud" to "most metal". You know what they say about people who speak in absolutes. One of my pet peaves. Again, be well

 

[newbluesuit]

Hi there!

I'm on looking for "right" speaker for listening dynamic music like heavy metal or electronic (like Yello) and jazz with vocal also in my list of preferable music.
Stenheim Alumine Five is an desired option that I want, but I'm not sure if speaker like this good for kind of music that I'm listening to and right choice for me, so if some owners here can bright me up - many thanks!
I saw here thread about Steinheim Reference ultimate two - but unfortunately I'm not there

I heard the Alumine Five extensively in Stenheim's own listening room on a couple of occasions. The last time I heard them (earlier this year) the source was a Studer tape machine (through a Nagra tube pre and CH Precision monoblocks, if my memory serves me well), and a few Yello tracks were played (from the recent Horch/ReVox releases) among other things.

I used to work as a sound engineer, and the Alumine Five is the closest to a top-notch studio monitoring experience I've heard in a non-studio environment (Stenheim's room has some acoustic treatment, but nothing compared to a professional mixing room). I'd say it's a great choice if you're looking for that kind of reproduction, which I think works best with recordings that are very well produced and/or densely detailed.

I can see why some may find them ‘smooth’ or even ‘lifeless’. Most hifi speakers add a bit of coloration or sparkle but the Alumine (almost) doesn't. With a great recording/mix, it will bring you that much closer to the performance/production. But it's going to reveal the flaws of not-so-good source material in a very blatant manner, as was demonstrated when we listened to an nth-generation tape copy of Pink Floyd's Animals shortly after the Horch/ReVox Yello tapes and other such releases.

 

[Pat781]

WOW! Thanks to all for the answers! Will consider this.
And if the Steinem is not good enough option, I have Focal Maestro Utopia Evo on my list too... or for any advice - TNX!
And yes TOOL very much loving band by me too