Assembly stages
- Hi, beautiful speakers lovers,
here you are on the right place.
On this site, you are going to take part in the building of an original JBL Hartsfield loudspeaker, as a prototype was done.
For those who only want to collect information, links are there.- Thanks to genuine master plans and those from a japanese magazine, you will be able to build a pair, with your own choice in several finished veneers to customize it.
- Before sweating in sawdust, we are looking for Miss H loudspeakers :
- - If you are lucky, well-to-do, and stubborn (3 conditions necessary!), you can use genuine vintages speakers,
- - Others would like to suit with replacements models.
- Before launching with body and soul, we can look for tools needed. A dozen hammers, a screw, and anything else?
- Now we start sawing, screwing and gluing.
- If you have two left hands and/or ten thumbs, you can overlook and go to next link.
- The great flea measurements and listening.
- This site is under construction. MissH is not finished.
- LINKS
Brief historical reminder
- Miss H, in its current shape was
born in 1959.
- Create to compete with “KLIPSHORN” , the commercial state of the art of this time , the internal construction of the first JBL HARTSFIELD was similar with the current one, but with the bass speaker at the top of the rear side, look down on the bottom.
1959 plans modifies the horn shape for simplification and industrial rationalization.- From its birth it was a commercial success , and participated to the JBL public image, as the Paragon or the Everest.
- This loudspeaker was sold as a single one, and its price was not so crippling (about 800 $ ) because at this time Stereo was just a dream of disheveled scientists
- This "Stereo" has signed the death sentence of "Miss H". Because its "corner wall" layout, the listening room should comply with its requirement, rather than the opposite.
- Today, MissH does not appear in JBL catalog, but craftsmen as ClassicAudioReproduction in USA, or UTOPIA in Japan can sell you a pair for a few bucks ! ( about 25 000 $ ) The other way is the Ebay auctions
- Continuation of press release with exceptional documents.