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Move from my LS3/5A orig ownr to Harbeth which

After all these years, looking to move toward the Harbeth line for my listening room (appx 10 x 18). Given that I use my vintage tube (from era) and enjoy vinyl and some cd's and listen to mostly classical, which would be the best move, the small P3--, 7E-- or the M30.1. I originally thought the M30.1 would be a good choice but recently I have seen several coming up for sale from people who have had them a very short period of time, as if they are way overated? My Rodgers are wonderful but given the amount of years maybe an upgrade might be enjoyable! Thanks
Melinda
melinda

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gianttube
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Harbeth is a weird existence. In sonic aspect it needs a tube amp. In electronic aspect it is 4ohm and low sensitivity needs a Solid state amp. Just don't buy Harbeth LOL. It is a joke at that price point.
gianttube
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Horn loaded bookshelves such as dc10audio Berlin II are not well designed. The bottleneck of bookshelves is the woofer, not the tweeter. With such a small horn, the tweeter can only have crossover down to around 2,000+HZ. Its drivers inside the horns are not true compression drivers for horns. That's to say, such a design loses most benefits of horns but keeps undesirable features of horns such as directivity over 10,000HZ. What DC10 did is to put an ordinary tweeter inside a pretty wooden horn of primitive design. Having such a horn-like tweeter will make the high frequency more efficient but the bottleneck of woofer does not change.
gianttube
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quad-man you are wrong. Its woofer does not work in this way.
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