wish I was in Japan :(

Joel,

Those wicker armchairs of yours, are really groovy, not to mention those curtains, and an especially neat touch is that nifty bit of cool, not decorating, patch of wallpaper peel!! Looks a lot like my place actually Can't see any pickle though. Where are you hiding the pickle Joel?

 

Jesus H. Christ on a bike!

I'll have to refer you to an old an Latin proverb: Minor Plus Est!

Is there any space left in the room for you to sit???

DT

 

Point taken

 

Thanks for the vote of confidence, bloat. Sadly those are not my speakers, nor is that my room or system (not really sad about the last two).
How are the Harbeths BTW?
The pickles are safe in the fridge.

 

Shame, I rather like that room.

Loving the Harbs. I've only ever owned (ie, longer than a couple of months ), a couple of speakers: AR 18s, which I used with my Nait, and Epos ES14's, which I used with an LP12/32.5/Hi/160 setup. That accounts for most of the last 20 years. I bought some Dyn's, which just weren't right for my room, and then managed to wangle the Harb's off Ian.

They are the best speaker's I've ever owned. They're very forgiving, will make any recording sound good, and placement really isn't an issue. I thought they sounded a bit boxy at Ian's place, but, they seem to suit my listening space perfectly, sitting on a pair of open frame stands. I was hoping that they would match my room accoustic's with it's boing boing wooden flooring, and they do, to a tee. I am constantly surprised at how good the bass sounds on such a small speaker.

They seem to go well with most types of amplification. I've used them with AMC, Sonneteer and Meridian amps, and they've always been very well behaved. I sold my Naim gear before I had a chance to use the Harbs with them - thank God!

In short, they are superb, and more modern speakers, lack their clarity and detail. Are they big sellers in Nippon? Perhaps they're a bit small for japanese speaker fetishists.

OK, so let's talk pickle. Is there any chili in your pickle? Salty Mango pickle, lime pickle, aloo pickle? Rather as with the Paris Metro, where some people can unaccountably reek of a garlic in the morning, do your fellow commuters waft delightful pickle smells in your direction?

Akram

 

That's good to hear, and is pretty much how I feel, despite listening to an ungodly number of alternative speakers since I've had my Harbeths.
I expect to hear shortly that Ian is tired of his DIY specials and plans to return to using "proper" speakers. But he is such an audio tart, so who knows what he'll end up with...

They are pretty popular, although I seem to be the only person with even a clue as to how to set them up properly Harbeth's biggest markets right now are PR China and BBC/ITV I believe.

The 3kgs of pickle in the fridge is from Korea, is superb, and very definitely in the chili camp. In Seoul you eat an astonishing array of pickles (kimchee) featuring cabbage, daikon radish, tofu, raw garlic, ginseng etc with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Rice gruel and pickled cabbage may not sound too tempting as breakfasts go, but it can be a superb feast (especially when it's a smooth black sesame porridge). Quite a different experience to subcontinental pickles, though.
After a day or so, the pickles begin to saturate through to your pores and you don't notice the, ah, scent any more.
Japanese pickles are something else again, of course.

 

Lordsummit

I might have a copy of Unknown Pleasures, I know I've got one but I swear I've got a another [earlier] copy in the loft...I'll have a look at the weekend.

Paul

 

Excuse my while I chunder :nuno: