E V Patricians-- JBL Hartsfields- Your choice

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).

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,