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RE: curious--what don't you like about the BE tweeter?




I actually like the old MM De Capo model designed by the original designer Daniel Dehay. It had a warmer overall presentation and way back when it was the speaker that I was lusting after. I wound up buying the AN K/Spe over it in direct comparison but it wasn't a beating - it was a closer call than usual for me and I'd have been happy with either model. Note also that I liked Reference 3a even with some solid state amplifiers. I have heard Harbeth with the amplifiers above and Harbeth sounded very good with that same gear both at an audio show and demo. It was runner up for my favorite rooms at the show at CES a few years back.

I have now heard the Reference 3a line (the De Capos are at the left out of view of this photo) taken and auditioned with the same gear and it has been frankly disappointing. It's not like the old De Capos and while it may be more "hi-fi" because the tweeter I suppose is technically superior - the end result is a more detached, colder presentation to me - the floorstanders actually cam across as outright thin and bright. This same dealer carries Rosso Fiorintino loudspeakers which sounded vastly better and I'd never heard of that line of speakers until this. However I don't know their prices and could be much higher.

I remember on a Canadian forum a fellow who may have been a dealer or at least a passionate owner also felt that way about the pre - De Capo version over the De Capo i.

The BE drivers are impressive - but I guess that very impressiveness is what bothers me - I hear them doing their own thing. When I heard the BE version the first thing I said was - this is a metal tweeter.

Having said all that - you know very well that other posters around the net like them. But hey plenty of posters like ribbon panels and I don't get that either.


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