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RE: About to purchase Harbeth Monitor 30s from outside of the USA...speak now or forever hold your peace.

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In Reply to: RE: About to purchase Harbeth Monitor 30s from outside of the USA...speak now or forever hold your peace. posted by Mr Blue Sky on March 28, 2014 at 17:40:19

"Outside the USA" may come as a shock to you, but there is a mighty big world around the centre of the Earth.

Which country are you talking about?

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RE: About to purchase Harbeth Monitor 30s from outside of the USA...speak now or forever hold your peace. - Mr Blue Sky 13:23:19 03/30/14 (4)
Your sarcasm seems to indicate the assumption of ignorance, arrogance, or prejudice on my part. That's the trouble with assumptions. As you said, it's a mighty big world.

I have zero problem with other countries. Obviously the speakers originated in the UK. My issue is that I am in the USA and I'm worried about shipping them overseas in boxes rather than on a bulk pallet.
- RE: About to purchase Harbeth Monitor 30s from outside of the USA...speak now or forever hold your peace. - middleground 15:00:43 03/30/14 (3)
  The difference in price would have to be substantial to justify the cost of shipping and the risk associated with such a journey. Work and cost to get them through customs is another issue. The brokerage fees alone will probably make this endeavour a bad choice.
  
  To each his own but I heard the larger Harbeth 40.1s briefly and, admittedly, with music I disliked at the Montreal show and can't understand what the fuss is all about. Only the big Tannoys sounded worse to my ears.
  
  Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
  
  De gustibus non est disputandum.
  - Perhaps it is best not to judge an entire line by one loudspeaker - John Marks 15:42:14 03/30/14 (2)
    For my increasingly meager Shekels, Harbeth's P3ESR--within its limitations--is a gem; while at the same time, both the 40 and the 40.1 seemed to me to be exercises in big-assed 1970s studio-sound nostalgia.
    
    As I wrote in Stereophile at the time, I cranked up the 40s on Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" title track so loud that they probably heard it in Connecticut, and it was great, but, it was a trip in Mr. Peabody's WABAC Machine--pure nostalgia for a time that perhaps never was.
    
    I don't have the time and nobody is paying me to explain the square/cube "size effect" law one more time, but, I think it explains your sense of Nothingburgerness, which, although I don't agree with, I understand and respect.
    
    And, if you heard the same laughable setup I did, that goes double. Or more than double.
    
    Speakers on chairs?
    
    JM
    - RE: Perhaps it is best not to judge an entire line by one loudspeaker - BCR 16:27:24 03/30/14 (1)
      Oh that was you? I was wondering where that music was coming from,now that explains it!
      - Hah. - John Marks 18:35:08 03/30/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Perhaps it is best not to judge an entire line by one loudspeaker posted by BCR on March 30, 2014 at 16:27:24
        
        Yup.
        
        Me

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