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In Reply to: RE: Speakers Never Heard posted by BillH on January 18, 2015 at 07:50:46
JBL Paragon.
I have heard the Hartsfield, but never a Paragon
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We sold them... rather we sold one. Had it in a big room driven by a Mac MC2300, C28, Thorens 125, Shure V15 (whatever the 1972 version was.) So pretty to look at, so awful to listen to. No bass. Almost no mid-bass. Overwhelming mids that hinted at greatness. Complete listener fatigue in five minutes, tops. The only speaker that sounded worse was the Bose 901. There was a huge spif on the R/P, and still it took forever to get rid of it. Maybe the somewhat dull-sounding C28 robbed the R/P of its goodness and left the annoying; I donno. As I heard it, it was aggressively awful.
But... we had a big spif on another impossible-to-sell speaker, and that was the KLH Nine. It was 1972, and $1,140 for the Nines, or $1,830 for the R/P was really hard to imagine.
(Sidenote: the Nines, driven by a pair of MC3500s, playing the Shchedrin Carmen Ballet on Angel/Melodiya, has to be one of the greatest demos ever.)
Still, there are people spending fortunes for the Asian recreations of the R/P, so maybe that hint of greatness could have been turned into something good with better sounding gear upstream.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Ditto.
How about a pair of Hartsfields in the corners and a Paragon as a center channel. As long as were fantasizing me might as well go all the way!
Dave
IIRC, the Paragon was JBL's answer for stereo, because a pair of massive corner-loaded horns was difficult to place in most homes. It's been many decades since I heard either, but I do remember the cabinets being quite handsome. For reasons I can't fathom, the shop keepers in Westwood and Santa Monica were always willing to fire up EV Patricians or Bozak Concert Grands for us kids who were unlikely to be able to afford them. Of course, we always carried along our copy of Toscanini's Pictures to audition.
db
I have that record, and quite a bit more Toscanini! Did you ever get to hear the Paragon? Not everybody liked it.
Dave
How cool would that be!
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