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In Reply to: Re: May we compare the Harbeth Monitor 30 directly with the Spendor SP1/2E?? posted by Shiden Kai on April 8, 2007 at 21:52:13:
The only thing I would take issue with is the characterization of the Classic Spendors as "extremely colored". By that standard about 75% - 80% of the box speakers in $1K -$3K range are "extremely colored". Both the Harbeths and the Spendors have a personality. The Harbeths are more clinical and the Spendors more romantic.The Maggies are wonderful speakers but they do take a relatively robust amp to drive them properly especially for rock, dub and electronica. They also need about 4'+ of space behind them.
Mr Blue Sky, you need to pony up more information about your (real) budget, room and what you intend to drive these speakers with if you want to get any additional advice of any quality. You already have multiple, excellent (and consistent) characterizations of these speakers that (coupled with Bob Neill's reviews) that are only going be fleshed out by personal auditioning. Since you apparently have the opportunity to hear both speakers and given that neither speaker is close to $1K these posts are starting to sound a bit more like wanking than a serious speaker quest.
Follow Ups:
It was laughable to read of spendors being colored! They can, along
with quads, sound like you are in the concert hall, especially with
regards to the voice and wind instruments(thier hallmark).
As a BC1 SP1 and sp2/2 owner, i just want to hear if a sp1/2e or
sp2/3e can give me that mid range magic of the original BC1! any
comments?
My budget is unlimited and my gear sounds better than yours.
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...and yes, I am certain my amplifier sounds better than yours.
can your big brother beat up his?
Only if he could manage to untangle himself from his studded bra straps, fur shackles, and leather gimp mask.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0302/harbeth30.htm
Regarding your married for life comment, I guess I am now a bigamist, since I got a pair of M30's. I find them a lot warmer than your comments suggest.
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"Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone."
Warm and cool are higly relative, as we both; and highly dependent on both experience and electronics. To begin with, I had not yet heard Reynauds or Audio Notes when I wrote that. And to follow up, that generation of Blue Circle electronics (especially the AG3000) was a bit cooler than BC gear are today. (The Solfege was so incisive sounding it was soon thereafter removed from the Audiomat line.) I am curious how I would find the M30's now. To repeat my favorite personal audio cliche, experience changes experience.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0302/spendor12.htm
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