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In Reply to: RE: maybe need the 40.2? posted by George S. Roland on November 18, 2020 at 10:12:33:
There are a lot of fine speakers on the market and the reality is the gear and equipment and simply your taste has a lot to do with it.
On another forum three somewhat similar speakers get compared - similar in appearance and some design elements.
Harbeth M40
DeVore O/96
Audio Note E.
They all look kind of similar are wide baffle and I know at least one reviewer who has had one and moved to one of the other ones and a few who moved away from Quad for one of them as well.
Best of all my favorite dealer in Canada carries all three of them and Quad (and Magnepan) and the kinds of speakers the NRC and Floyd E Toole touts (these always come in last for some reason).
There are "camps" of speakers and in the end, you just go and listen and decide which one you like. Since I prefer SET amplifiers that tend to be lower power I tend to prefer the speaker that gives you more choices.
So the 0/96 can be driven with 2 watts, the AN E (or the AN J) needs 3-7 watts, and the Harbeth is better suited with 100+ watts. Since I don't like most 100 watt amps the results for me are not as good with Harbeth. Plus they tend to be more expensive and I don't hear it in the end result.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter if someone sold their Harbeth for something else because whatever speaker (speaker XYZ) that person bought over the Harbeth there will be another person who sold XYZ speaker for a Harbeth.
Back in the day, I compared a Musical Fidelity A300 amp to a Sugden A48B and I felt the Sugden was substantially superior sounding in terms of ambiance, bass depth, and tone. I felt the A300 was more hi-fi sounding with more air and wider staging. To me, the Sugden was all day better than the Musical Fidelity. But guess what. The Second hand Sugden was traded in for that very Musical Fidelity!
Thus, the owner of the Sugden obviously preferred the air and lateral staging more than he valued bass depth and ambiance.
Based on the widespread music that I listen to - the Quads and panels, in general, do not impress me. I always feel I am listening to the sound, not the music. For others, nothing else will do. Just as for horn lovers where nothing else will do but a big high sensitive horn.
I know a lot of people who love Harbeth and a lot of people who can't stand them - just like my Audio Note speakers or my ex KEF LS-50s.
My general advice though is to always try and listen to a speaker 3 times with 3 different systems in 3 different localities. So listening to something at 5 audio shows counts as 1 venue (the audio show). Some stuff just doesn't work well there. An MBL Omni-directional, dipoles (panels), near room boundary speakers, can suffer greatly in lousy hotel rooms.
If it sounds great in this kind of location then chances are it will sound better in a good room at home.
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