Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ?

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

Older Sonus Faber, like Cremona, perfect… I owned a pair… wonderfully warm, organic and natural sounding. I have moved up the line to Olympica 3 and now contemporary Amati Traditional now.

+1 Sonus Faber, very competitiive with Harbeth

re: audioman58 comment on Harbeth crossover parts

GR Research did a video segment on the  crossover parts used in the Harbeth P3ESR.     However, the 40th anniversary version used better crossover parts.

jjss49,

You have far more experience with ProAc than I do obviously. I owned the Response 1s and Response 2, both of which I really enjoyed, but having also owned 2 Spendors, the SP100 and the 9/1, I wouldn't describe the ProAcs as warm. I do agree with the characterization of them as electrostatic-like though.

Thanks for asking, I'm doing well, and coincidentally, I am waiting on delivery of a preowned pair of SP100's that I found here on Audiogon last week. I always regretted selling them, and I am looking forward to enjoying them again.