Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ?
I've looked far and wide especially for bookshelf speakers with prominent full mids and a lush sound. So far the only name that comes up is harbeth. Maybe Sonus faber but are there other speakers that have similar tone but are made by a different company?
glad you are lovin’ the sp100’s... a great speaker that pushes the right buttons for us is just priceless ... so much listening pleasure!! as for @secretguy ... well we all have good days and bad days, you and me included for sure ... 😆 happy listening... |
i believe @secretguy has maggies a great speaker for sure, but a different kettle of fish than harbeths not that this makes his put-down on harbeths cool if taken seriously... quite the contrary,,, but we will focus on his emoji ... think his comment is just a jokey pokey...
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proac tablette 2000 or response 2 spendor sp1/2 or sp2/3 stirling ls3/6 graham ls5/9 older sonus fabers like concertino domus or guarneri passive buchardts wharfedale linton heritage (bit lower quality than the ones above) you can also talk to fritz heiler, his non beryllium tweeter models have a warmer tone |
hi @roxy54, hope you have been well... i agree with you that in general about proacs, pretty much all their higher line floorstanders and mini monitors in the response series have very high resolution and cannot be said to be warm in overall nature... more transparent overall, for sure the couple older models i cited (tablette 2000, and original response 2 standmount-- and to some degree their ’studio' series which was below the response series back in the day) are kind of anomalies in their line... the treble is dialed down and mid range/mid bass are somewhat dialed up, so the particular are warmer in tone overall, much more in the spendor classic camp i would say there is no doubt modern proacs with the ribbon tweeters - d and k series - and older small response 1sc, floorstanding response 3, 3.5, 3.8 and beyond are certainly not warm - in fact they had an almost electrostatic quality of precision and see-throughness about them i was a proac fanboy for a long while in the late 80’s, into the early 2000’s, been through most of their models in that period |
awesome!!! ... sp100's are keepers... truly forever speakers... i may wander to others for a while but will never not have those again! i did the same as you, sold em off some years back, then immediately regretted doing so, hoped to get another pair back somehow, you and i have both succeeded in that! ... for you it will be interesting, now that some time has passed, to see now whether they still have that magic (in my case the answer is yes, in spades!)... enjoy!!! |
well, we try to be nice around here, not overly talk things down, some people are quite happy with lintons never know where folks are coming from, how resolving their gear is, what they are driving speakers with, and so on... 🙏 |
