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There are at least two answers.

The first is that Harbeth is a prime supplier to the British Broadcasting Corporation's studios worldwide. What that means is that Harbeth's pro speakers (most of which have consumder versions) have to be "drop-in replacements" for the installed base. Many times the installations are in soffits that have custom cut-outs so that the front panels are flush. Obviously, Wilson Benesch's ACT loudspeaker is not a drop-in replacement for anything.

The other answer is that Harbeth believes in enclosures with tuned resonances--that at the end of the day, you can make a more musical loudspeaker that is more affordable by channeling and working with the unavoidable cabinet resonances than by trying to eliminate them totally by brute-force methods.

So Harbeth uses thin-walled "lossy" cabinets. You are free to reject this approach.

I think that within its limitations the P3ESR is one of the nicest little loudspeakers out there, and I think that in the right choice of veneer, it looks great.

FWIW & YMMV.

John

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