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Tube747
05-12-2005, 04:25 AM
I would like to place the Hartsfield like most conventional loudspeakers away from the rear wall instead of putting both Hartsfield on the corners, then putting a subwoofer on both corner thst is going to responsible lower frequency. What do you think?

paragon
05-12-2005, 09:17 AM
No ! :)

Oldmics
05-12-2005, 02:18 PM
No ! :)

JBLnsince1959
05-12-2005, 02:21 PM
No ! :)

Ditto :D

JohnK
05-12-2005, 03:01 PM
I will probably get blasted for this, but it probably doesn't matter what you do with the Hartsfield, it sounds terrible no matter where you put it.

Oldmics
05-12-2005, 03:15 PM
:mad: :dont-know :banghead: :biting: :biting: :crying: :jawdrop: :duel: :no: :barf:



Oldmics

Robh3606
05-12-2005, 03:18 PM
"I will probably get blasted for this, but it probably doesn't matter what you do with the Hartsfield, it sounds terrible no matter where you put it."

Wow!! that's a first!!! I have never heard anyone describe them that way. Sure they wern't loaded with D208's???

Rob:)

JohnK
05-12-2005, 03:29 PM
Sorry, but No 208's, the ones I had were the "first generation" ones, with the drivers being the usual suspects. The sound was...hard to describe....like the music was passed through a comb filter or something, missing whole notches of the spectrum. They are great as far as neat looking 50's furniture goes. Was offered $8000 for them in 1988 and sold them ( I paid $2600 for them about 3 years earlier).
I have heard others, and they are all about equally bad.

At that time I used to talk to John Wolff, now seller of hartsfield repros, I expressed my concerns about how terrible they sounded, he had THE SAME assessment, and admitted that the only way he could listen to them was with heavy EQ.

Oldmics
05-12-2005, 03:37 PM
Like much of the "hi sensitivity" equipment it depends upon the speaker -amp combination.


I to have heard poor sounding systems giving the results that JohnK describes.Usually these were powered by an s/s amplifier as opposed to the tube equipment from the era.

The wild card is that not all of the tube stuff sounds great.Its about finding the right combination.

I really enjoy my Hartsfields for low level thick,dynamic listening.For loud stuff,I fire up the Paragon.For the ridiculously loud-I go to work !!!

Oldmics

JohnK
05-12-2005, 03:44 PM
The best results I ever got was with MC60's, or A117's at moderate levels. ANYTHING transistor faaaagetaboutit!

tomt
05-12-2005, 04:33 PM
sooo...

what electronics were used when they were designed?

or
wdju?

(what did jim use?)



wasn't western electric stuff, was it?

Mr. Widget
05-12-2005, 04:36 PM
Mr. Lansing was no longer with us when the Hartsfields came out.:(

Widget

tomt
05-12-2005, 04:39 PM
sooo...

what electronics were used when they were designed?