sideshowbob
Champagne fascia aficionado
I blame @Martyn Miles for this, reading his threads has started an itch.
I'm very familiar with vintage LS3/5as of various types, having heard them in many systems over the years (although I've never owned a pair myself for some reason). I have always liked them a great deal. Since March I, like many others, have had the chance to spend a lot more time with my home office hifi. It's looking vanishingly unlikely I will ever return to an external office. So, I reason, given that my home office is a perfect size and my listening position a perfect position, for an LS3/5a type monitor, maybe now is a good time to go for it and buy a pair.
My budget won't stretch to Falcon or Stirling V3s, I'll be looking in the secondhand/exdem marketplace. Harbeth P3s or Stirling V2s both look like plausible options. Can PFMers who have experience of both try to describe how you would compare them? I know all this is subjective, and ideally I would listen to both and make my own decision, but I think I'm going to have to lean on others' impressions here. I get the feeling I'd like either of them, but some indication of how they differ would be useful. Ta.
I'm very familiar with vintage LS3/5as of various types, having heard them in many systems over the years (although I've never owned a pair myself for some reason). I have always liked them a great deal. Since March I, like many others, have had the chance to spend a lot more time with my home office hifi. It's looking vanishingly unlikely I will ever return to an external office. So, I reason, given that my home office is a perfect size and my listening position a perfect position, for an LS3/5a type monitor, maybe now is a good time to go for it and buy a pair.
My budget won't stretch to Falcon or Stirling V3s, I'll be looking in the secondhand/exdem marketplace. Harbeth P3s or Stirling V2s both look like plausible options. Can PFMers who have experience of both try to describe how you would compare them? I know all this is subjective, and ideally I would listen to both and make my own decision, but I think I'm going to have to lean on others' impressions here. I get the feeling I'd like either of them, but some indication of how they differ would be useful. Ta.