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RE: Harbeth P3ESR with tubes..

Posted by el34eh@yahoo.com (A) on August 13, 2016 at 07:11:15

In Reply to: RE: Harbeth P3ESR with tubes.. posted by mondial on August 12, 2016 at 20:53:57:

Hi Mondial,

You're more then welcome. Yet I can only base things upon how I hear them, as someone whom came into this hobby back in 1982, upon returning to the states after being stationed in Japan for 9 years, as this gave me a boarder means of being educated as to how different cultures do in fact appreciate music from said global perspective, I came to understand the fundamentals of basing the notes themselves as they relate to pitch | tone | timbre | timing abilities and from said point never strayed from said learnings.

In this sense along I'd have to say the Harbeth Acoustics LS 3|5As have a more organic manner of connecting the dots, where everything comes across as having less of a signature as it relates to purity, with an added sense of ease, stillness and silence between and behind each and every note, whereas to my senses the P3 | HL-P3 ESRs, while once again are quite lovely at playing vocalist at the absolute finest, they do come across as less refined when compared to the likes of standard LS 3|5As in this regards.

Yet I'd wager as I've told many friends of late, if one music collection consist entirely of vocal or simplified type recordings, then one can easily appreciate the beauty of any given Harbeth, if driven with the right sort of amp in front of them, but they like all speakers or components for that matter are still compromises, and it then becomes a question of how one wishes to hear them?, as someone whom isn't a bass freak, yet once again does seek at least a nimble, very responsive ability from my Mini-Monitors to have that sense of stopping and starting on dime without any sort of overhang in the mix, so of late I tend to look at designs which offer between 50 - 45Hz, as this serves my music well, seeming that I'm more into acoustic jazz ranging from the recordings from 1953 | 64, with some recorded afterwards by labels such as Dragon | ECM | Enja | CrissCross | SteepleChase | Venus Jazz and plenty others whom offer superior pressings to my ears.

Yet on a slightly different note, if one listens to a boarder genre of music, and doesn't require sub-woofers and the likes?, I'd say that Mini's like the Bonicke W5s | Spendor SA-1s | Neat Acoustics Motive 3SX | Audio Note Model K, all should if nothing else be sampled before committing to the above makes, as I've heard Harbeth's fall apart when asked to play even something so simple as one of Patricia Barber's Smash download, where it was beautifully rendered until she stopped playing the piano, and her band came in..........., it was as if the speakers sat there and became disjointed at the seams and refused to play any further.........., this was not a great way to show a consumer it's worth, and my friend passed on them ( Model 30.1 ) in favor of a pair of Quads.

In the end........., it's more important once again to know which type of amp is going to be used in tandem with any given speaker before hand, as synergy and sonics does not one make over the other, it's the matching of both amp and speakers, later complimented with the right voicing of ones cables is when it all comes together, done wisely.........., one can sit back and enjoy said system for years and years.

Yet if merely based upon ratings here and there, which isn't the way to judge one system........, getting out and listening to the pieces together is far more important, and better still if you can mimic the exact system you've heard and loved right down to the cabling loom and isolation devices and stands, as they all make a difference.

Enjoy your Quest as well........., until next time.

Peace.

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