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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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mapman
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Surprise, but I preferred OHM L or H to all those for all kinds of music. They sounded most like the Advents by design. L for similar performance in a smaller package and H for taking things a bit further. C2 was a bit on the bright side for me. Es were a reasonable approximation for less cost at lower volumes but with less bass.
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rja
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A lot of people had a lot of fun with those speakers!
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mapman
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"A lot of people had a lot of fun with those speakers!"

That is for sure.

Then there was the Bose 301 crowd as well.

THey also had a lot of fun. I was always more an Advent sound person though.

...also loved the old Advent 300 receiver. Nice pre-amp and decent tuner, when they worked.
audiowoman
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These were my first "serious" speakers as well. I kept them for 15 years and then my brother used them for years afterwards. They went well with my Yamaha natural sound receiver and dual 510 turntable and Shure M95 ED cartridge. Amazing how I can still roll that system right off like it was still 1973! Those speakers could boom a little bit but I fixed that by putting felt covered concrete bricks underneath them. All in all not bad for a girl!
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philjolet
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I have always wondered why the "fried egg" tweeter was not used in other designs. I found it to be effortless and very listenable.
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