Speakers known for great midrange.

@travisg

watched the video -- well for that fellow, his experience, it’s not good, harbeth needs to clean up its act, lots small companies have had issues last couple years, for obvious reasons

that said, no company is perfect, there are always a small %age of q-c issues that get out even in 'normal times'... for me, i have owned 5 pair of harbeths over the years, recently bought fresh 40.3 xd’s and helped a fellow audiophile buy a set of new super 5+ xd ... no quality issues, and of course, terrific sound... but maybe we didn’t look closely enough? 🤔😁

wait for the hydrant to blow open in three two one... 🤣

Is it fair to say Harbeth is not the best choice for an all arounder and perhaps better with classical or slow jazz?

classical or slooowwwwww jazz only... or else they will blow up and burn down your house, have fire extinguisher ready if you are listening to rock or edm

I hear the Harbeth quality control can be hit or miss.

tuurible, just tuurrible - consecutive pairs of mon 30.2 off production line can sound like klipsches, then dahlquists, then bose ... tis what happens when you hire blind folks from the south of london to do final q-c

😂🤣

well said @big_greg 

agree 100% to all your stated observations on big harbeths, and klipsches too (my ears still have ptsd from loudly played klipsches from a decade ago hahaha)

Budget is 5000.00.

QC issues example:

 

this video was recently posted in the harbeth user group... below is alan shaw’s reply, fwiw... 

Update:

It transpires that we are well aware of this issue, and in fact it predates the recruitment of our QC Manager. The video was posted one year ago.

At the time we first become aware of this, the production team watched the video and a full analysis of the sequence of events was undertaken to establish ’root-cause’. It was, unfortunately, a series of compounding human errors, and our then Russian distributor resolved the issue.

Much has changed here since to eliminate, as best as we can, any remaining human error.

Best regards,
Alan

@steveashe

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that is exactly how mon 30’s should be used... well done, enjoy!

tbh lots lots of speakers get the midrange right...it is more about how the midrange is portrayed in relation to the rest of the music

from quads to spendors to ls3/5a's to dahlquists to vandersteens to harbeths to joseph audio to fritz to proac to atc to audio note to maggies to veritys .... you get the point...