Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents?

Like you offered in the subject line Interesting but useless! . Brings back a ton of fine memories . Although I went with the JBL 26's my best friend in the music world choose the large Advents . The 100' were to pricey even though they were my first choice . Heck I didn't even go for the L-36's . it was probably 1974 and we were 16 . We listened and listened to the differences in the speakers. We both voted for the ones we owned but acknowledged the others was every bit as fun to listen to. They both made it through 4 years of college unscathed and until we had real jobs and real money to play with. 

My first speakers were Acoustic Research 3A’s. Then I went to Large Advents, then B&W 802s ($1700 at the time).  My last three pairs of speakers have been successively larger Maggie’s. I love the 3.7i’s the most. 

My first loudspeakers were Realistic Nova 7’s from Radio Shack.  Within a few years, I was able to replace them with walnut large Advents.  That was definitely an improvement, though it seemed that the Advents didn’t have some of the highs (or was it brightness?) of some of my friends’ speakers.  I played them via a Pioneer SX-626, which only put out about 27 wpc, which wasn’t bad in my bedroom.  When I moved to an apt., I took them with me and they got stolen along with the rest of my equipment.  

Just found a review of my Advent Legacy speakers.   Looks like they can still be found on eBay.    Temptation🥺
http://www.hifi-classic.net/review/advent-legacy-171.html

Yeah, me too. I was broke and did not have a TV but managed to scrape together enough to buy the Advents. Powered with a amp and pre-amp I made. I've never regretted any money I spent on stereos and enjoyed listening to the Advents for years.


Scott