Hard to sell my Klipsch Heritage Speakers for a possible Harbeth upgrade.

OP,

Not sure why you would do that at all. I would spend some serious time listening to Harbeth before that decision. The reviews sound great, but you might like the speakers less than the reviews.

If possible buy a used pair at a good price so you can resell without significant loss in case you don't like them.

That is what I did and was very happy with my decision.

Hello OP,
No doubt that these 2 brands will sound different. Is the Harbeth clearly superior? To some yes and to others no. Each will offer particular strengths, and each will have inherent compromises.

What type of sound and music presentation are you truly trying to achieve ? You could very well prefer the Harbeth depending on your objectives and long-term outlook.

The Chorus/Cornwall on the other hand may have certain virtues and attributes that the Harbeth cannot equal or perhaps even come close to.

So the ultimate question is what is it you really want from a speaker ?
Charles

To the OP, try to get a listen to the Harbeths, or any model of similarity. As already mentioned, they are quite different. As a listener, as Charles so elequantly stated, you need to determine what it is YOU want, in a system. I have heard many systems , and I owned quite a bit of everything, and I have determined two things. ( 1 ) I know I am listening to recorded music through my systems, and trying to pretend they are not recordings, is ultimately rediculous. ( 2 ) I have determined I like good horns, as they give me attributes that I like. Detail, dynamics, effortless momentum of the musicianship, good tonal rendition, coherence between drivers, believable imaging and spatial presentation, and ultimately, the ability to recreate musical peaks without the common signs of compression. I also achieve all this with high quality smaller wattage amplifiers, as they always sound better to me than larger similar designs. I own Klipsch, and I am an expert of modifications. I prefer your Cornwalls, and if you dampen the horns, as mentioned by tomic, and further brace the cabinets, you will take them to another level. Btw, the Chorus is not part of the Heritage series, as an fyi. Over at the Klipsch site, you can get a lot of information if you decide to stay with them. However, only your ears will tell you what you want. Not reviewers, not other posters, including me, no one, but you. Trust your ears. Enjoy ! MrD.

d2girls, 
that is a fictitious ‘consensus’. Unless you’re some savant that has tallied every opinion from every thread about all those speakers (and I think the outcome would still be different)...I’m guessing you’ve read a few threads since being here for only a year now and you may *think* that but it is flat out false. I know plenty that would say different. Me included, and I’ve heard all those but Proac... It’s best to stick to opinions and observations from personal experience and let a researcher/reader come to their own consensus instead of telling them what most of us think.