My most stupid system...

[Jerome W]

P3ESR's arrived today.
They are on my desktop. With a MA5100 integrated.
Room is tiny.
Sound is just to die for.

I was made for Harbeth.







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[Jerome W]

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[joeinid]

Beautiful Jerome. I bet it sounds wonderful. Enjoy!

[Jerome W]

Beautiful Jerome. I bet it sounds wonderful. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot Joe !
Yes to my great surprise, I did not make any effort. I just put them there and they are magical. Harbeth's Bliss !


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[joeinid]

I can't wait until my 40.1's show up. Fingers crossed.

[Jerome W]

I can't wait until my 40.1's show up. Fingers crossed.

Joe,

I cannot believe how patient you have been.
You are a Mensch.
My order would have been cancelled since a long time if I were in your shoes.
Since patience is always highly rewarded, my guess is that the 40.1 will make you think very differently about all other speakers.

I took the decision yesterday to sell ALL my other speakers and to replace them by Harbeths. I hope you won't be as radical
as me !


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[joeinid]

I think I am, but I know how good they sound. My Strads will never leave, but I have no problem adding more Harbeth .

Joe,

I cannot believe how patient you have been.
You are a Mensch.
My order would have been cancelled since a long time if I were in your shoes.
Since patience is always highly rewarded, my guess is that the 40.1 will make you think very differently about all other speakers.

I took the decision yesterday to sell ALL my other speakers and to replace them by Harbeths. I hope you won't be as radical
as me !


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[socfan12]

Looks sweet, Jerome! I love the Harbeth sound. Congrats!

[Jerome W]

Looks sweet, Jerome! I love the Harbeth sound. Congrats!

Thank you !


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[MDP]

Hi Jerome, I was telling my wife about all your great systems last night ! And remembering some photos from the past of your rooms.
Why don't you share some pics of all your systems again for us ?

[still-one]

I took the decision yesterday to sell ALL my other speakers and to replace them by Harbeths. I hope you won't be as radical
as me !


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Jerome
Are you really planning on doing that? I demo'd several of the Harbeth at the local dealer and found myself in the other room very quickly. The Magico and Vivad were much more to my liking. It must be the magical pairing with your Shindo that you enjoy so much because Naim, Luxman and Hegel were not magic.

[Jerome W]

Hi Jerome, I was telling my wife about all your great systems last night ! And remembering some photos from the past of your rooms.
Why don't you share some pics of all your systems again for us ?

Hi Mark,

Will do. Thank you !


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[Jerome W]

Jerome
Are you really planning on doing that? I demo'd several of the Harbeth at the local dealer and found myself in the other room very quickly. The Magico and Vivad were much more to my liking. It must be the magical pairing with your Shindo that you enjoy so much because Naim, Luxman and Hegel were magic.

Yes Jim !
All tastes are fine and I respect yours.
I cannot listen to other speakers without finding them boring and artificial now !
No relation with Shindo.
Harbeth makes me vibrate like no other speaker.


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[joeinid]

That's wonderful to read Jerome. My MC225 was delivered today. Can't wait to hook it up tonight!

[cmalak]

Jerome...congrats on the desktop Harbeths. So does this mean Wilson WP8 and Rega speakers are being sold?

[Paul]

Yes Jim !
All tastes are fine and I respect yours.
I cannot listen to other speakers without finding them boring and artificial now !
No relation with Shindo.
Harbeth makes me vibrate like no other speaker.


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[Jerome W]

Jerome...congrats on the desktop Harbeths. So does this mean Wilson WP8 and Rega speakers are being sold?

Thanks Cyril.
Sure thing for the Wilsons.
Thinking again for the Rega's. One problem with the Harbeths are the feet. They are not nice. The Rega RS10 have a stunning look in the living room. And they are very narrow.
I still like them so I could tolerate them probably.
The Super 8's are also for sale.


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[Jerome W]

That's wonderful to read Jerome. My MC225 was delivered today. Can't wait to hook it up tonight!

Joe : SUPER WOW !!
Waiting to read your impressions.


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[Ritmo]

Congrats Jerome!

[Jerome W]

Congrats Jerome!

Thanks Mike !


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[Zero]

Nice setup. I also run my P3ESR's on a desktop rig.

[Jerome W]

Nice setup. I also run my P3ESR's on a desktop rig.

Thanks !
Really !
Would love to see a pic !
( I wonder if we are the only 2 nuts guys to do that ! )


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[magoo]

That looks a great set up .......and I *know* they sound wonderful Congrats! It's exactly a year I've had mine & it's been a very enjoyable year (and many more to go, these ain't going anywhere!).

[Jerome W]

That looks a great set up .......and I *know* they sound wonderful Congrats! It's exactly a year I've had mine & it's been a very enjoyable year (and many more to go, these ain't going anywhere!).

Thank you Matt !
I know that you set them up properly.
They must be very happy with the Snappers.


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[magoo]

Thank you Matt !
I know that you set them up properly.
They must be very happy with the Snappers.


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Your set up plays nicely with their near field BBC heritage thou And yes, they do pair well with the Snappers, especially since I added a Croft Micro 25R pre. But 30w of Unison S6 also sounds great, the Harbeths seem to have a knack of bringing the best out of an amp. And after a year I still find myself wondering just how so much top quality bass emerges from those tiny boxes

[Jerome W]

Your set up plays nicely with their near field BBC heritage thou And yes, they do pair well with the Snappers, especially since I added a Croft Micro 25R pre. But 30w of Unison S6 also sounds great, the Harbeths seem to have a knack of bringing the best out of an amp. And after a year I still find myself wondering just how so much top quality bass emerges from those tiny boxes

Yes that is true Matt. For sure this is a near field system. Could be in a BBC van. And yes, surprisingly, it sounds "real". I get connected to the music.
Their bass is superb, but as always with Harbeth, the mids are the most natural ones I ever heard. All the spectrum is fabulous, but voices are the easiest thing to analyze and qualify as "natural" or not.
Those BBC guys really know how to make speakers.

I have noted with the big 40.1 this ability to shine "no matter" the amp.
I think that Harbeth designs speakers of such a high quality, that yes, amplification really becomes in a way " secondary ".
While many other speakers do not have this coherence and naturalness, we keep searching always for the "best amp", without realizing that we are indeed trying to compensate for a problem of some kind of the speaker.
Now I know what Alan Shaw means when he says " No matter the amp. Any one decently well made will do the job ".
He does not express himself in a standard way though. He is very "basics". I guess only owners really understand what he means.

What is surprising in my home is that the 40.1 really shine with 3 different amps. I can hear very clearly the differences between the amps. I could spot then after 10 seconds of music in a blind test. But they almost all give me the same joy of listening.
So they are both very revealing of the upfront components, and very forgiving. Really contradictory qualities but that is precisely what we hear.
The only exception being that after 2 hours of music played through my SS amp ( 2205 ), I do not have the same "excitement" to continue for hours. I loose a few degrees of excitement with time.
Tube amps do not produce this feeling. I can listen to them all day without any loss of excitement.


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