Clipped and Shorn Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50597&item=5766729699&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V How do these compare sonically with Khorns? C&S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 I've heard the new reissues ($20,000 a pair) of Hartsfields twice, and they were remarkably poor. They might fare better under different circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-MAN Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 What?! they must have turned into GOLD since the '60's... DM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Well, they probably just sell a few, so they can't spread their costs out on very many units. I literally would rather have a pair of Heresies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale W Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 I've heard these speakers and they are fairly smooth . The styling always appealed to me , they just look mean !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royster Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Nice looking speaker. But at that price a complete joke IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 They remind me of R2D2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 ---------------- On 5/2/2005 5:32:55 PM NOSValves wrote: They remind me of R2D2 ---------------- Somehow, it reminds me of Sam the Eagle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Has anybody but me noticed that Fini is on a major roll lately. Nice to see that your humor is still intact after your recent loss. Take no quarter, full pun ahead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 What loss did I miss something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 The Jubilee bass bin is similar to the Hartsfield in looks. As to how they perform, I don't know, I have heard neither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.cherry Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Fini you cracked me up with that pic. too funny. and it really does look like sam.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khorn58 Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 I always thought the Hartsfield bass bin was almost the same as a khorn but with the corner built in. I have the Mccaulley copy of the jbl horn lens and its l nice sounding horn. with a more short through than the klipsch and altec horns so it works nice up close. I would mind a pait or even Hartsfield to add to the collection. Does seem like the Jubilee bass bin is similar to the Hartsfield Hmmm And I though Klipsch had it out for Jbl copying the Khorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 58---Yeah, I used to have a pair of those McCauley lenses, 130 degree pattern as I recall. Very nice sound tonally, no sawzall. I found the pattern too wide for my room and speaker placement though. That's one of the nice things about DIY horns; don't like this pattern try another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 I have to admit for having a soft spot for the Hartsfield even though I have never had the opportunity of hearing a pair. They seem to have good engineering and JBL's top of the line drivers at that time. Other than the cheesy one driver version, there didn't seem to be any compromises for cost savings applied. Original price must have put it beyond the reach of most Klipsch shoppers. ---------------- On 5/2/2005 9:39:45 PM khorn58 wrote: I always thought the Hartsfield bass bin was almost the same as a khorn but with the corner built in. ---------------- Nope... from the shop drawings i have... the Hartsfield's bass-bin folding is quite different from the Khorn or Jubilee. I would kinda describe them somewhere in-between. The exterior (horn mouth and general profile) has a striking resemblance the Jubeliee even though Klipsch designed it many years later. Anyone know what PWK thought of them? The Hartsfield was originally rare and expensive... so today's prices reflect that. OTOH the Khorn was omnipresent and a bargain for what you got... then and now. I see it more of a question of diminishing returns... Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 PWK placed the Hartsfield on his list of "Great Major Breakthroughs" along with the "Imperial" and "Laguna" - both well thought of then and now - as well as lesser lights like the LEE Catenoid, deMars, Fold-a-Flex, and Integral Space Transducer - whatever that was. The Shorthorn's on that list too, along with the note "Yup, we did it too." The late Hartsfields were quite impressive, especially after JBL added the "Silver Bullets" to them. The earlier ones were lacking in the top end. Definitely the one of the best examples of West Coast sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 The 2-page ad by PWK was called "HO HUM Another major breakthrough" and gave a list of 28 supposed "major breakthroughs" in which a discarded speaker design was "re-invented." The title of the list was sarcastic, in other words, and PWK admitted that he himself had fallen for it with his own Shorthorn, which closes the list. So don't interpret it as an endorsement of the Hartsfield. The ad actually is making fun of it (rightfully so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 Sorry, didn't mean to give the impression PWK was endorsing anything - the rest of the flyer is a swipe at the Bose 901 - only that there are some pretty good speakers on the list, along with some that are truly bizarre. (Wonder why he missed out on the Karlson Rocket?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 Hartsfield vs. Khorn...that feud has been going on for YEARS... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 try http://www.classicaudiorepro.com/ for Hartsfield repos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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