Harbeth loudspeakers are precision instruments that are well designed, carefully assembled and tested with care, and providing that they are not overdriven they will last indefinitely. Our official UK Warranty is 12 months from date of first purchase to the original owner providing that the speakers have been treated with respect, not overdriven, operated within their rated specification with appropriate amplification and that the original Harbeth cartons are availalable. The Warranty is not transferable.

Analysis of the few spares incidents each year reveals that in almost every case there has been gross overdrive of the bass/midrange driver's voice coil resulting from a failure inside the driving amplifier which has "gone DC" applying constant high voltage to the voice coil, which literally cooks. The tell-tale signs of overdrive are unmistakable and void our Warranty but if the user is attentive and very quick witted he may be able to immediately switch off the amp and safeguard the speakers. None of our speakers are designed for PA use, nor for extremely long periods at very high levels so lock away your Harbeths if you have a teenage party!

New models are introduced every so often, and spare parts are made available for previous models as long as possible. Where Harbeth have manufactured the drive units in-house (such as the RADIAL bass/midrange driver) we are in a much better position to offer continuity of spares than if the driver was manufactured for us - and that includes all tweeters.

The bass/midrange drivers of the earliest Harbeth monitors (the Mk1, 2, 3, 4) were manufactured for Harbeth by other companies, who have now ceased operation. This has unfortunately brought to an end the supply of drivers for those venerable models.

Please note: we regret that we can not enter into correspondence over discontinued models and neither crossover circuits nor component advice is available: sorry.

 HL-Compact 7

 HL-Compact  7ES/7ES2

 HL-P3ES/ES2

Note 1: A simple plan for a DIY fabric grille to replace the original foam grille is available here.

Note 2: There is no obvious upgrade path from the original HL-P3 (with a foam grille) to the later HL-P3ES2 / Monitor 20. The bass units are slightly different in characteristics, and this is taken account of in the crossover networks. Furthermore, the crossover in the HL-P3 was mounted behind the tweeter, secured to the baffle but the P3ES/ES2/Mon20 crossover networks are on a different size PCB that fits onto the rear terminals.