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Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge

I started my speaker search convinced I should was going to get the Falcon Gold Badges (Madrone 50th Anniversary) been waiting for over a month, which left me too much time to think about other options. Now considering the 30.2 XDs from Harbeth. 

I wanted to get some opinions from the experts here on which you would recommend. To give you an idea of my listening habits, it's mostly classic Jazz and Blues, acoustic music. I sit about 8 feet from speakers, have a Sugden Integrated, a Rega P10, Hana Red Cart. I am auditioning Phonos stages so thats undecided.

 

Let's hear it!! 

 

jc51373
jc51373 OP
500 posts
 

I got a set of 30.2s had them 3 weeks before I sold them. Most boring speaker I have ever listened to, to be fare I was likely underpowering them with my Sugden amp. I wouldn't have like them either way. 

 

Ended up with a pair of JM Reynauds and I love them. 

mlsstl
1,384 posts
 

I almost bought a set of Falcons last summer, but ended up auditioning Spendor's 4/5 model, which is their current incarnation of the classic 3/5 design. I ended up getting the Spendors and have been very pleased.

larryi
3,719 posts
 

I heard all these speakers at Deja Vu (I don’t work there).  I have heard JM Reynaud speakers a while ago and liked them a lot too.

My favorite speakers are high efficiency horn systems or systems using fullrange drivers as wide range drivers in multi-way systems.

badgerdms
151 posts
 

For a point of reference, my other in-house speakers (in addition to Harbeth) are Volti Rivals, Fleetwood Deville SQs, and Studio Electric M4s.  If someone finds the 30.2s boring there is something else amiss in their system.

jc51373 OP
500 posts
 

@badgerdms

Safe to say you are referring to my post and safe to say you didn’t read it. No need to get defensive, every speaker you own isn’t necessarily for everyone else.

Nothing amiss since I plopped the JMRs and they sound glorious. I wouldn't be the first to accuse Harbeth of sounding boring. My system isn't a high watt A/B system, it's pure class A. So as I mentioned and you might have missed, they probably needed more power, though no other speaker I've owned including Wilsons sound as clamped as the Harbeths. 

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