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Monitor 40.5 XD2

Product description
Harbeth's flagship three-way stand-mount monitor — a 300 mm bass driver, 200 mm RADIAL midrange and 25 mm ferrofluid tweeter in a large thin-wall front-ported cabinet with the XD2 crossover. Its dedicated midrange and 35 Hz reach make it a full-range reference for larger rooms and serious studio work, on heavy stands.

Performance — where it sits in the catalog

BassTrebleSensitivityEasy loadCone area
Bass reachTreble reachSensitivityEasy loadCone area
Monitor 40.5 XD235 Hz20 kHz86 dB6 Ω1026 cm²
Median45 Hz25 kHz87 dB6 Ω219 cm²
How to read this chart

Each axis spans the range the 448 bookshelves in the catalog actually cover, so equal distance means equal difference — and for cone area and the two frequencies, which are read as ratios, equal distance means equal ratio. The dashed inner ring is where the scale starts, not zero. Ranked within a class because a bookshelf measured against floorstanders is feeble on every axis for the single reason that it is a bookshelf. Cone area is summed from the drive units — no maker publishes it. Bass and treble reach are quoted to different tolerances and only 56% of the catalog says which, so read those two axes as approximate. The grey outline is the median of this speaker's own class, the 377 passive bookshelves — same type, same side of the active/passive line, which matters because the two halves are not the same product: the median active bookshelf carries 155 cm² of cone against the passive median's 219. Median rather than mean, because a handful of very large cabinets would drag a mean above most of the class it claims to describe.

Units
TypeBookshelf
HiFi ladder position#444 of 448 bookshelf
PowerPassive
Height750 mm
Width432 mm
Depth388 mm
Weight34 kg
EnclosureBass reflex, front port
Drivers1× 25 mm tweeter (ferrofluid-cooled dome), 1× 200 mm midrange (RADIAL polymer cone), 1× 300 mm woofer (cone)
Frequency response35–20000 Hz
Sensitivity86 dB
Impedance6 Ω
Power handling650 W
MAP (USD)$21,990 / pair
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Manufacturerharbeth.co.uk ↗
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