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With miraculous midrange, deceptively strong bass for the speaker's size, and clear treble, these magical speakers from Harbeth make you feel as if you're listening to the real thing. Click here for more information about Australian Hi-Fi , including links to buy individual digital editions and details on how to subscribe.
Harbeth tricks me every time. Every time the courier delivers a pair of Harbeth loudspeakers for review, I prepare to lift the first carton by bending my knees and keeping a straight back, then when I lift, I end up virtually launching the carton towards the ceiling, so light-weight is the speaker inside it.
But if you are more used to speakers that weigh as much as the average person, the weight of the Compact 7ES-3 XDs will come as a total surprise. I will discuss the reason for this later in this review. The question you should be asking yourself right now is why I am reviewing a pair of Harbeth loudspeakers at all.
The new terminals on the rear panel connect directly to the printed circuit board that contains the crossover components, which shortens the signal path and minimises transition losses. The driver is so well-made that initially it appears as though the cone and dust-cap are a single moulding, but in fact the dust-cap is attached separately.
There are many advantages to this design, but in the case of the 7ES-3 XD one of them is that the grille cloth can be fitted tightly over the front baffle without affecting cone movement. Unlike most modern loudspeaker cabinets, which are constructed without any visible seams, joints or fixings, the Harbeth 7ES-3 XD cabinets have clearly visible joints and fixings, in particular the 12 screws that hold the rear panel to the two side panels and to the top and bottom panels.
The heads of these screws holding the The screws on the rear are stainless steel, which I think look great. Instead of being made from the usual wood or plastic and attaching to the front panel using plastic pegs, the frame of the grille on the Compact 7ES-3 XD is made from flat mild steel, which press-fits into a rather deep and very narrow groove that runs around the periphery of the front baffle.
In my previous Harbeth reviews, I have nearly always mentioned how difficult it is to remove these grilles, indeed on one occasion I had to point out that a previous reviewer had damaged the cabinet of my review sample by using a sharp tool of some kind — probably a flat-bladed screwdriver — to pry the grille off. Why would you want to remove the grilles? As I said earlier, some audiophiles think speakers sound better without grilles.
One thing I had never thought to do is actually ask Harbeth how to remove the grilles. You are able to buy neodymium magnets from any Jaycar store. Do you remember that I said earlier that different finishes were available depending on model? He founded the company to commercialise the use of polypropylene as a material to form speaker cones. It was while developing these that Harwood became dissatisfied with the Bextrene copolymer being used to manufacture the cones for these speakers.
One issue was that it was difficult to maintain consistency from batch to batch, so they ended up throwing many cones away. Because this doping was done by hand, it was not only labour-intensive, but also meant that every cone was slightly different, because the coating could not be applied consistently. It was because of all these issues that Harwood was instrumental in pioneering the use of polypropylene copolymer cones at the BBC, and while he was there, patented — in his own name — the use of polypropylene as a cone material UK Patent Harwood used polypropylene cones for more than a decade until he switched to using the then-new TPX material, first in the HL Monitor Mk4, and later the original Compact which was designed by Alan Shaw.
Harbeth is very helpful about telling you where you should position its 7ES-3 XD loudspeakers in order to extract the best performance from them, saying that they should be 30cm or more from a rear wall and placed on stands that bring the ears level with the tweeters.
I can only assume this is also part of the BBC heritage, where the speakers were in most cases placed on wall-mounted brackets.
Note that they were not actually attached to the wall or to the brackets, just sat on the angled brackets themselves. Some experimentation with support devices might be profitable. Obviously, you should also consult your Harbeth purveyor, who I am certain would be more than happy to sell you a pair of suitable stands. Obviously the tweeters need to be at ear level, but I also found that I far preferred the sound when both the left and right speakers were toed-in so the sound-paths converged exactly at my listening head position, because I found that — in my room at least — this configuration not only delivered the best stereo imaging but also the best high-frequency response.
I think it was J. This means the human ear and the brain that analyses the sounds detected by that ear are superbly tuned for the vocal range and can hear even the tiniest errors and discrepancies at these frequencies The two instruments loudspeakers find most difficult to reproduce are the human voice and the piano. It also delivered her unique voice fabulously well. The sounds made by the small audience are also reproduced with uncanny realism. Hard to pick a favourite track on this one.
Track 4, You Can Have Manhattan , is one of my all-time favourite tracks of anyone. It would have been better with just her and her piano. However, in the spirit of reviewing hi-fi components with recordings my readers can actually find, I instead listened to a stunningly good recording of the same work by flautist Andrea Oliva and her Hemisphaeria Trio, which comprises Damiana Mizzi soprano , Roberto Mansueto cello and Marcos Madrigal piano. For starters, recorded sound courtesy Da Vinci Classics is unbelievably good.
The acoustic setting is perfect, and the background so silent you could hear a house fly land. I could really ask for no more. I am rather hoping that Steven Isserlis might take this idea on. If you listen to this too, pay attention to the stabbed, staccato piano notes and how the Harbeths deliver the starts and finishes with such precision, and with absolutely no distortion whatsoever.
The high-frequency extension was excellent, though again maybe very slightly recessed in the very highest octave, but since this resulted in a silky-smooth, non-fatiguing delivery, it was all good. Many speakers have difficulty delivering the extreme syncopation on this track, as well as the anti-phase sounds, but the 7ES-3 XDs delivered everything flawlessly. His kit sounds impressive on all the tracks, but perhaps is most impressive on Pretty Vacant and the following track, New York.
Graph 1 shows the in-room frequency response of the Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 XD loudspeakers when measured using a pink noise test stimulus. Rarely do I see such a linear response in any loudspeaker that does not have the benefit of an inbuilt amplifier that uses digital signal processing to compensate for loudspeaker irregularities.
If we take the 85dBSPL graphing line as the reference axis, you can see that the response is essentially only slightly above this axis between Hz and 2kHz, and at its greatest deviation, at around 1. The in-room response of Graph 1 shows the response that will be delivered in a room as perceived by the human ear, but Graph 2 shows the high-frequency response in high detail, and with extended high-frequency capture.
You can see that despite the increased resolution, the response is still spectacularly flat out to 4kHz, with no perturbations or significant deviations from reference. Above 4kHz, the response is quite different depending on whether you decide to leave the grille in place red trace or remove it black trace. With the grille in place the response is smoother out to 8.
The smaller resonant peak at 32kHz could be due to the perforated metal cover protecting the tweeter, or related to the dome in some way. Either way, both these peaks are comfortably above the range of human hearing. Newport Test Labs measures low-frequency extension using a near-field test method, the result of which is shown in Graph 3. This would suggest to me that designer Alan A. Shaw is doing his best to extract maximum bass output from it. Very nice! This relatively high impedance, combined with the benign phase response blue trace means this Harbeth design will be a very easy load for any amplifier.
However, the amplifier you use should have a rather higher output than you might expect, because in delivering such a linear response, it appears that Shaw has sacrificed a little efficiency, with Newport Test Labs reporting that using its standard stringent test methodology, the Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 XD delivered an output of 86dBSPL at one metre for a 2.
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Aus Hi-Fi mag review. See all comments 2. Hard to imagine a better review. If it wasn't for its high price, I'm sure it would be on many more shortlists. They would certainly go on mine, if I had the budget but, my being headphones only for music listening, is not a situation likely to change anytime soon.
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These speakers are worth every bit of their price tag. Keep in mind, Harbeth speakers are still designed, and hand built in small batches in their UK factory. These speakers are not merely a result of picking a few drivers, building some cabinets, and off you go. Everything is deliberate, everything is measured, and triple checked. The end result is nothing short of stunning, and a side benefit to this is a house sound in the best way possible. As you move up the range, each speaker is optimized to not only deliver more music, but in increasingly bigger rooms as well.
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Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 XD review
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The clarity is spellbinding and brings the magic carpet ride experience to the listening room in a medium-sized enclosure. The legendary multi-award winning medium-sized Harbeth HL Compact 7ES-3 takes the ultra-clean Harbeth cone technology to another performance level, combining natural sound with a flair for reproducing any and every type of music. The Harbeth secret for natural sound is the result of the meticulous attention to detail. Critically important, but hidden, is the crossover, which carefully integrates the drive units across a wider horizontal and vertical arc. Consequently, the Compact 7ES-3 is far less critical of stand height than many speakers of this size.
My Harbeth C7ES-3 story...
Generally I am pretty happy with the sound. Ill be using a W solid state McIntosh amp and Pre. This is such a great album. These are perfect with Proac, Harbeth, Spendor and just about any high end bookshelf speaker. I feel Harbeth open up and wake up with more power. They have greater frequency extremes and appear to have more detail on first listen, but after home demos, the Harbeths win every time for me.
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With miraculous midrange, deceptively strong bass for the speaker's size, and clear treble, these magical speakers from Harbeth make you feel as if you're listening to the real thing. Click here for more information about Australian Hi-Fi , including links to buy individual digital editions and details on how to subscribe. Harbeth tricks me every time. Every time the courier delivers a pair of Harbeth loudspeakers for review, I prepare to lift the first carton by bending my knees and keeping a straight back, then when I lift, I end up virtually launching the carton towards the ceiling, so light-weight is the speaker inside it.
The Harbeth HL Compact 7 series is the outstanding example of natural sound combined with a flair for reproducing any and every type of music from rock to opera, jazz through folk Now the HL Compact 7ES3 brings together detail improvements in the driver, crossover and cabinet that make this new model the finest and most enthralling Compact everThe Harbeth Compact 7 has always been my favorite model in the lineup I'm excited to tell you we have the new XD extended definition version of Harbeth's legendary Compact 7 In years past, there was the Compact 7ES3 a long time TONE reference speaker and recently, the Anniversary modelAbstract The Harbeth Compact 7ES3 stand mounted loudspeakers have the distinction of being in residence in this reviewer's system for seven consecutive years The speakers, in a distinguished cherry finish, are not only an excellent reviewer's tool, but a music l Read the full review » Google translate to English ». Harbeth compact 7es-3 stereophile review-The Harbeth Compact 7 has always been my favorite model in the lineup I'm excited to tell you we have the new XD extended definition version of Harbeth's legendary Compact 7 In years past, there was the Compact 7ES3 a long time TONE reference speaker and recently, the Anniversary modelLike Harbeth's Monitor M 40th Anniversary Edition, which I reviewed in April 18, the limited edition of the P3ESR costs more, but it's a distinctivelooking "trophy Harbeth" with bright olivewood veneer, WBT NextGen binding posts, 40th Anniversary badges on the rear panel and under the grille on the front baffle, as well as a metallic. To write this review, because I just have so much fun listening to them, that I always put my laptop down and got ten more records out! What amps do you use for your Harbeth 7ES? Alan Shaw's Harbeth Monitor , which has been released in time to celebrate the company's thirty fifth anniversary as a manufacturer of highquality loudspeakers, is the best compact twoway speaker system I have ever heard, regardless of type, cost, or complexity.
Former Harbeth owners; how long did you own your Harbeths? Current Harbeth owners; how long have you owned your Harbeths? I am in the process of buying new speakers. I plan on demoing the Harbeth
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