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My New Large Advents

OH MY GOODNESS!! I bought a pair of re foamed Large Advents on Ebay. Just unpacked them and hooked them up to my reference system (MacMini, Amarra, Rotel DAC, ARC SP17, ARC VS60, Nordost Purple Flair, Shunyata Power) in place of my Golden Ear T2s. I can't believe how good these crazy 37 year old speakers are. And no subwoofer!!! Do they image as well? Not quite, but not bad. The highs seem a little bright in extended mode but not bad in normal. If I had bought these back in 1973 when I bought my first system, I might never have traded for anything else. They are really dynamic. Very efficient. My room is 32'x18' with a 20' cathedral ceiling and these things with 60 watts of tube are rockin like crazy.

So has anyone done a mirror image mod on the tweeters and if so, did it accomplish anything?
dfwlistener
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rja
2,370 posts
 
Back in the day I had four of these stacked tweeter to tweeter. If I turned them up too loud they'd knock the needle out of the groove. They'll blow that foam apart if you're not careful.
xiekitchen
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I know the feeling.. I have 2 pairs, one pair from 1972 and a later pair from 1979, I prefer the later set up with the better woofer mounted mid cabinet and the drivers mounted without the earlier very diffracted front recession. I have done a bunch of mods to improve them and they can be improved quite a bit. There is another thread I wrote all about my mods on. Additional internal crossbracing did quite a bit to the bass as did changing internal dampening materials. New set of Kimber caps in crossover helped the mids bloom a bit more also. Take a 100 watt soldering gun and heat up the resin-glued tweeter metal mesh cover and rip that sucker off.. the tweeter will improve without it.
markpao
519 posts
 
Those were my first pair of (shall I call them high end?) speakers that got me hooked on this crazy hobby back in the 70's. Hooked them up with some Dynaco gear and an AR turntable, life was good.
I'll never forget that wonderful sound they produced.
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