Midrange Better Than Harbeth or Spendor?

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"Single driver.......Which would you recommend that can match or surpass the clean and refined sound of the Harbeths or Spendors?"

Try Feastrex... Single drivers. It has speed, detail, resolution, nice tone but very revealing of problems upstream..

http://www.feastrex.com/productinfo.html

For what it's worth, I have audditioned the Harbeth shl5 (very nice) and the Harbeth Monitor 40, which I would own if I could afford it. I would say that the overall resolution of the radial driver is higher that that of the Spendors that I have owned, the SP100 and the Spendor 9/1, but they have the same natural sort of presentation that really allows you to stop thinking about the speakers. Vocals on both are great, and I have yet to hear a speaker personally that betters either of them.

Roxy54: I have yet to hear a speaker personally that betters either of them.

Can you name the others, or at least the best among them if the list is too long, that you have heard? Thanks.

I used to own a pair of ProAc Response 1 speakers that I bought, mostly because I thought that the midrange was very good- God knows it wasn't because of their bass performance ! Within their dynamic limits- which were really surprising considering how small they were, the midrange was very fast and coherent, for example quickly strummed guitars were more realistic than on my Spendors, but the price to pay was that they were unkind to poor recordings. Still, they are really good. Ditto for the response 2.