@audiotroy
disagree with your assessment of Harbeth being musical and lacking detail similar to the Vandersteen speakers.
I appreciate your extreme knowledge of speakers and speaker design but IMHO the Harbeths are musical and detailed, especially the C7ES3 and SuperHL5+ which have very nice, detailed sounding Seas aluminum dome tweeters. they also sound very natural, simialr to live music due in part to the warmth from controlled cabinet resonances. In addition I have never owned a speaker that let me enjoy nearly all of the music in my collection without unacceptable harshness.
many speakers have additional detail, some artificially so and as such become "hyper detailed" to the point of listenning fatigue and incompatability with a greater percentage of recordings.
It is a fine line to walk down that balances detail, fatigue and pleasing sound.
disagree with your assessment of Harbeth being musical and lacking detail similar to the Vandersteen speakers.
I appreciate your extreme knowledge of speakers and speaker design but IMHO the Harbeths are musical and detailed, especially the C7ES3 and SuperHL5+ which have very nice, detailed sounding Seas aluminum dome tweeters. they also sound very natural, simialr to live music due in part to the warmth from controlled cabinet resonances. In addition I have never owned a speaker that let me enjoy nearly all of the music in my collection without unacceptable harshness.
many speakers have additional detail, some artificially so and as such become "hyper detailed" to the point of listenning fatigue and incompatability with a greater percentage of recordings.
It is a fine line to walk down that balances detail, fatigue and pleasing sound.