E V Patricians-- JBL Hartsfields- Your choice

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).

Hello Atmasphere,

That JBL speaker seems to be the current rave in the far east. It would have been interesting to hear comments on it's sound.

Baranyi:

Interesting your comments on the JBL Hartsfield . Many moons ago i had the opportunity to hear one , but never did and a shame, it would have been interesting to have heard such an Iconic speaker...

20/20 ,

Regards,

THE CUURENT AND ORIGINAL EVEREST IS NOT A TRUE HORN SPKR AS IT ONLY USES A HORN FOR THE MIDS AND THE SUPER TWEETER. ONLY 96db WITH 2-15'S LOOKING RIGHT AT YOU. AUDITIONED @RMAF09 IN THE KIMBER ROOM AND @RMAF IN A SLEEPING ROOM.IT WAS POWERED BY ML IN BOTH.THE SONY SPKRS IN THE KIMBER ROOM WERE MUCH BETTER THAN THE PRESENTATION BY HARMON. AS TO YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION OF WHAT TO DO WITH THE S-8 SYSTEM YOU JUST PURCHASED!!! SELL IT ON EBAY IT'S WORTH A LOT MORE THAN WHAT YOU WILL GET OF SONIC BLISS.THE ALNICO MOTORS HAVE LOST 25-30% OF THEIR CHARGE AND WILL SOUND QUITE ANEMIC. I CAN GO ON ABOUT EACH DRIVER IN DETAIL BUT WHAT WAS TOP DRAWER IN 1961, WHEN THIS GROUP OF COMPONANTS WAS INTRODUCED , AND NOW 2010 IS QUITE DIFFERENT EVEN IF YOU ARE STILL A FAN OF HIGH EFF.HORN BASED SYSTEMS AS I AM

Bob,
As you mentioned, the 375 mid driver was great up to 10K and then rolled off. JBL augmented the 375 driver with the 075 in later systems where it was easier to integrate than in the Hartsfield.

The patricians I built used the K horn up to 150 Hz and then I crossed over to the drivers used in the last Patrician 880. The sound was much better than the 800 that used the lethargic 30 inch foam cone woofer.

Ken