Speakers known for great midrange.

I own Harbeth 40.2 Anni’s and owned three pairs of Harbeth’s previously... zero quality issues.

Had tweeters fail with Dynaudio Confidence 2’s and 4’s and I don’t drive my speakers hard.

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)

Another vote for Spendor (Classic series).

The Stereophile review of your amp revealed that distortion increases dramatically at high frequencies when driving lower impedances. Good idea to check the impedance trace of any speakers you are considering.

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