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RE: I wonder if mounting the drivers from inside is a precise design choice

Maybe mounting the speakers from the inside helps give Harbeths their laid back sound! (=:

My comparison of Spendors and Harbeths would not sit well with fans of both. I suspect Paul finds it odd and wrong. Robert Greene would as well. But that's what I hear. I think if you back away a bit from both and compare them with other speakers rather than each other, they sound more alike. But within the British Family of Speakers, I do find them dissimilar, as I say.

I wish I'd had a better and full experience with Quads, which is where this conversation began, so I could offer something useful on that score. I heard what I believe were the second generation of Quads, the 63's. In a largish room many years ago. They left me cold compared with a pair of Swiss speakers (Ensemble by Goldman?) which makes me a party of one and suspicious of that experience. I had a customer here once to listen to my Harbeth Monitor 40's who said they reminded him of his Quads, though I think they were fairly recent Quads. So one of these days I'll have to find a way to revisit my earlier experience to see what the Quad and Quad vs. Harbeth & Spendor thing is all about.

Fascinating note: I once knew Ralph Spear of what is now called Spearit Sound in Massachusetts. Ralph sold all manner of popular contemporary stuff, most of it which made big, bold sounds. He sold me a Krell KSA 50S (best Krell?) which worked with a KRC 3 and a pair of Matrix 805's in a tiny apartment in Brighton, MA. His secret and the point of this note: his personal speakers were Quad 57's.


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