[please excuse my bad English]
Your Harbeth M30-->Graham LS5/8 upgrade is VERY interesting, and is the nearest of the one I feel tempted to do.
- I owned Harbeth M30.1 (a bit too rosy-view but lovely; medium & treble a bit too muffled), sold;
- upgraded to M30.2 Anniversary (present); better speaker; sound a bit more "monitor", but still very musical. I love them.
- I *listened* to Harbeth M40.2. Terrific, and even better midrange than M30.1. But can't afford.
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I *listened* to Graham LS5/8. Liked it, *though intrigued by a
somewhat lean midrange*. But excellent sense of "live", of "being
there". Extremely fun to listen to. More affordable the M40.x.
Nevertheless, I'm puzzled: where is the midrange? (hidden between a
tweeter and a 30cm woofer...).
I was a bit afraid that the
positive opinions over LS5/8 came from people who do not care as much
about the mid as I do, and are more easily satisfied with a 'boom-n-tiz'
big sound (lots of bass, lots of treble, but not much midrange in
between).
That's Why your evolution from a M30 is VERY interesting to me => WHICH M30.x model exactly did you owned? (M30? M30.1?)
My LS5/8 temptation:
My
2nd system, setup for confinement in the countryside (see my Systems),
is in a large room. I'm curious what an upgrade to Graham LS5 / 8 might
be like here. But I don't want to lose the wonderful medium of the M30.2
Ann.
I listen to classical, attend to live concerts, and I'm very demanding towards the naturalness of the system.
In this post, I called for some feedback about the Graham LS5/8 (I wrote 'medium' instead of 'midrange', sorry for my English!).