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?
No !
No !
DittoOriginally Posted by Oldmics
No !
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.
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Oldmics
"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
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.
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
The best results I ever got was with MC60's, or A117's at moderate levels. ANYTHING transistor faaaagetaboutit!
sooo...
what electronics were used when they were designed?
or
wdju?
(what did jim use?)
wasn't western electric stuff, was it?
Mr. Lansing was no longer with us when the Hartsfields came out.
Widget
sooo...
what electronics were used when they were designed?
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