E V Patricians-- JBL Hartsfields- Your choice

Buconero 117

The Everest was the statement JBL loudspeaker. The concept was fantastic but as happens to all loudspeakers that need the room size we had in the 50s and 60s, nobody bought them.

The K horn design hits a brick wall at 35 HZ. Back in the 60s the point was moot as program material went no lower via the playback devices of that era. Now we hear TTP issues recorded in the mid 50s with sound that makes demands on the best of the best.

I'm not looking at building a statement speaker by today's standards. I feel I have that system now.

I'd like to revisit the drivers of yesteryear for the fun of it. I'll set them up in a separate room, more than big enough for the experimental speakers, and see how they sound. If they sound like hell to me, off to the kids they go. The Ipod generation doesn't know what sounds good anyway!

Ken

Weseixas, I did see a JBL speaker at RMAF. It had the horn on top, rotated 90 degrees from the traditional alignment, which is a good idea as this would favor horizontal dispersion. The tweeter horn was molded into the top.

It was not a large speaker, but it seemed to sound OK. I did not get much audition time with it.

Hello Atmasphere,

They had there larger speaker with the Levinson stuff

http://live.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/ces.pl?&MT_8024&RoomView&NV&st141&&&&&RMF10

I used to be a vintage audio collector and had both speakers until about 10 years ago. The Hartsfields were one of my favorite vintage speakers. The old style Hartsfields reminded me much of Quad ESL's on steriods! They were not bright but an amazing midrange speaker. They were not great in the frequency extremes but the midrange was great. Some people attempted to mate the speaker with the Bullet tweeter with variable results. The older style hartsfield was a much more complicated cabinet than the later Hartsfields. The EV Patricians could play loud enough to anger an entire apartment building! Again the differed by each version. Patrician IV's sounded far different than the later 700 and 800 series. Hope this is helpful, Bob

Weseixas, I did hear those speakers too, but I thought they were TADs when I saw the side by side woofers. I really couldn't tell you anything about that system, though I can say that the speakers did not seem to attract attention to themselves (always a good thing).