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Warm romantic & detailed

Good morning Gentlemen & ladies... 

I'm just starting to toy with idea of replacing my Focal 1038's... No matter how I treat my room, or what equipment I throw at it I just can't seem to tame the harsh highs on this speaker. 

I'd like to stay in the same price range of the Electra's (7/8k), I don't mind buying used, the musts for me at this point are: Warm, romantic, yet detailed... It would be beautiful to just sit and listen and not have ear fatigue after 15 minutes of listening. 

Can you please recommend something? 
jeffinnh76
johnkent3
63 posts
 
Revel or Dynaudio.
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stringreen
6,371 posts
 
Tannoy - yes, but also listen to Vandersteen
gearhead81
13 posts
 
Initial post said he wanted to stay in 7/8k ballpark. Aren’t the harbeths 2.5x that? What is the magic in that brand, the pricing seems insane.
jeffinnh76 OP
23 posts
 
I found a few speakers in my original planned budget. Of course things evolved for me after some demo sessions, and of course recommendations. As Mentioned: the Focal Spectral's checked all the boxes I was looking for. I demo pair was selling for 7600... The Sonus Faber heritage iii really blew me away, 10k with the stands included I thought this was a great deal. But after hearing The Harbeths I felt like that was a life changing experience for MY ears. 
gearhead81
13 posts
 
i’m glad you like them I just could not believe the price when I saw them MSRP. Would you consider them to be warm and romantic? What made them life changing compared to the other great ones you heard?

Also curious how were spectral‘s compared to your other focals in terms of sound signature? Seems like the spectrals don’t get much talk in the community 
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