People That Have Upgraded From Harbeth 30.1s....

@radiohead99

I would imagine the gr15 competes with Harbeth 40.2 but I do not believe the gr10 or gr12 do. They cost $2500/$3500 Canadian vs Harbeth prices (which is a lot more!) so regardless of performance considerations, you have to keep in mind value you’re getting with Coherent.

As for how the coherent handle rock: they make music easier to listen to than my Jbl 4367. I actually prefer how the midrange sounds on the Coherent gr12. Kind of crazy considering the gr12 is $3400 vs $21000 of the JBL 4367. 

Holy ****, Pull your head out of your ***. I couldn't even stomach reading all the post. Let me guess, you hooked up some inexpensive source and expected the excellent Harbeth to improve the sound of a crappy source. Should have done your research my friend. Harbeth are very true to the source. Whether it be the cables, the amp or pre, the player or turntable or even if its just a **** recoding, if you feed Harbeth's Crap....You hear Crap.....Feed them good source and the Harbeth will shine. No added dynamics... No added anything. Just honest sound

I can’t figure out who inspired jethro1964’s rant.

Someone hasn’t had his morning coffee? ;-)

I fed them with a pass labs amp/pre, schiit yggdrasil and top of the line pioneer stable platter system. pretty sure it was more than up to the task. how about you pull your head out of your ass?

I was also wondering which post inspired the rant, but I agree with jethro1964. I own and enjoy Harbeths, but I simply can't understand why Mr. Shaw sidesteps the amplification thing. To say any well designed amp over 50 (or whatever) watts will give you great sound does not make sense to me. It's a very well designed speaker, and it will easily allow someone to hear the flaws in a mediocre amp. Then on the same token, it will allow a better amp to shine.