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

best friend had the large advent and i had JBL L65 jubal . mine were more fun to listen too. cables were garbage. first cable was the famous monster M1000 purchased around 1982 along w a CJ PV5. fun time

Advents were very popular in college.  My first speakers were Polk Audio 7 that sat on a stand like a Heresy.  Also had a Sony V fet amp which i blew up and got scolded by the dealer.  Used a Pioneer turntable.  Also remember my audio dealer had a pair of Magnaplaner Timpani 3 driven by Big Audio Research tube amp.  Still remember that sound.

Whatjd, you nailed it. I bought a pair of second generation Large Advents (the model with the bull nose corners) after college. I ran them with a Marantz 2325 receiver, then went with an Adcom GFA 555. I owned them for about 30 years where they spent their later life in my secondary system.They sounded wonderful and led to my life-long audio addiction.

No Advents or JBL but did have Cerwin Vegas's AT-10's with teac cassette and Marantz 2265B reciever. I'm still trying to forget the CV speakers  I remember replacing them with Paradigm SE 9's I though it was such an improvement!! My Son still has SE 9's speakers

I'm still using my Large Advents (1973) with refined woofers and cross overs redone.

Not my first set as mine was a pair of JBL L-166es but I was very lucky to
find last year a pair of Large Advents in very good condition at an excellent price. I haven't really listened to them as I've been giving more attention to the newly acquired ESS AMT Tower 1's and Snell Type A-ll's.
One of these days....
 

Similar to others, the Large Advents were the first decent speakers I owned, and were purchased from Harvey Sound in NY with a Sansui AU-999 integrated amp, Marantz tuner, Dual 1219 tt w/Stanton 681ee cartridge, and Tandberg tape deck. Those speakers were in our household for over 20 years. The amp is on a closet shelf and still works, although I haven't used it in years. The Advents played lots of great music and recall many fond memories.  

Me too. Until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten the name Advent. A black hole in the memory bank. Right . . . getting a fuzzy mental image now . . . but it was the intro to lower end of high end of forever long ago. Certainly equal to whatever electronics I had at the time.

Me too. Until you mentioned it, I had completely forgotten the name Advent. A black hole in the memory bank. Right . . . getting a fuzzy mental image now . . . but it was the intro to lower end of high end of forever long ago. Certainly equal to whatever electronics I had at the time.

rushfan71, I think the operative words are "old timers" and "original Large Advents."  Check back with this thread when you start getting senior discounts at the movie theater!

If this counts, the first pair of speakers I purchased just after High school were the large Advents of the time, early 90's the Advent Maestro. A 3 way design. I also purchased a Sansui RZ 9500 from local hifi shop. I remember how happy I was at that time. I still have them. Refoamed the woofers and recapped the xover and braced the cabinets. Still have the Sansui as well. I think I will always keep them. Reminder of how this all started....

I had stacked large Advents as well  They were great. Replaced with B&W 802Fs, also great. 

My wife had Large Advents in her Deli. They sit up on top of a shelf that went all the way round  the main dining area. At the same time, I had Infinity 1001A speakers with the rear tweeter. I liked her Advents, but liked my Infinity's better.

Large Advents were my third speaker and my first decent ones.  After that Mc ML-1's for (too many) years.  Much better ones now.

I was at the CES show in Chicago the year Henry brought the original VideoBeam TV.  We watched a large format tape of Blazing Sadles on it at the Drake Hotel and if I remember drinking some very basic wine.  A good time.  Meet Saul Marantz there once as well when he was helping Jon Dahlquist.  One of the people and company that I loved were Magnepan...

After the Videobeam a person at Advent, I believe Andy Petite, helped with the Advent 2 speaker and the first version had only one tweeter (in production they did 2 at an angle)  the high frequencies were shot out is such a straight line that some called it the AudioBeam.

Large Advents were my second set of decent speakers, bought in the mid 80s.  My first pair of speakers were Sansui Sp-100s  bought in 1969.

I am now listening to 3.6 Maggies that were bought new in 2006.  It has been a journey and I found an equipment mix that got me off the upgrade merry go round.

The Advents are exceptional in our history, but their predecessor, the Acoustic Research AR series (1-7), had the greatest impact.  With their newly invented sealed woofer, followed by their newly invented dome mids and tweets, they revolutionized audio, holding around 33% market share of all hi-fi speakers sold in the US. These were 1/8th the size of comparible speakers and sounded better for much less money.  The new transistorized electronics made the system affordable.   For you relative newbies,  Professor Ed Vilchur, who invented these things, as well as the three point base turntable (which became the Aristoon and Linn Sondek),  partnered with speaker cabinet maker Henry Kloss, who was later the K in KLH, before founding Advent, and later, Cambridge Audio.  Advent is certainly a big part of this revolution, being even more affordable than AR and KLH.  Also of interest, Advents only existed to fund Kloss' development of his large screen, projection televisions.  The dual diaphram, mid tweet used in the Advent was  copied and presumably improved by Thiel.

Excuse me. Next would be Allison One's then the Acoustats. 

I was very young when I was introduced to the world of audio equipment, and, the fascinating world, of the reproduction of recorded music. Listened to, and used, more often than my dad, his system, which included AR3a speakers. I soon acquired my own system, and from my singing coach / music teacher, his pair of Klipsch Cornwalls, the vertical version, when he upgraded to KHorns. Went through numerous, and I mean, numerous, equipment / speaker / environmental ( room ) changes, throughout my life, and it all has resulted, in where I am at today. Enjoy ! MrD.

They were not that bad MC. They were a fabulous speaker for the money. That donut dome tweeter managed to get down pretty low allowing a two way design. I used two of them as a center channel between my Heresy's. Everything was being driven by a Fuzz Liner 700. It was a rockin system for a collage kid. I would sell all four speakers when I was given a pair of Bozak Symphony's which I ditched when I graduated. They were so darn nasal. I could never get then to sound good. Next would be Acoustat X's and off to La La Land.  

From my first speakers, Fisher 3 way 12", I switched to large wooden Advents, then bought a second set for my Fisher quad receiver.  Soon, I had a Crown preampand Phase Linear 400 on these stacked Advents.  The wood ones do sound a bit better. For decades I wondered why, until B&W did a lot of laser imaging.  The bezels deflect the driver's backward motion sound away from the push signal.  Eventually, I got early B&W's, the ones with the KEF ovalish woofer (Used to keep the cabinet narrow to minimuze the value added tax), along with a Celestion mid tweet and a Coles supertweeter.  Next were the B&W DM 14's, eventually stacked. Later I added Acoustats for the sweet Electrostatic mids, and kept them for 25 years, along with the four 14's.  They were sold when I got my 803's. My telly uses 2 of the 14's on the original stands. 

@jbrrp1 and Vandersteen make an upgraded version of the 2 today and not one part is the same - evolution and refinement in a repeat cycle...I spoke with Richard the other day and he was working on a low / no cost way to make the current model 2 even better.,,,

fun

my first speaker was Infinity Qb

Yep.  Large Advents from 1976 - 1987, when I heard Vandersteen 2C's really well set up.  That really began my high end fascination (and coincided with me finally working full time, and paid right).

2 Pair stacked - Large Walnut Advents

Tech Hifi classic set up was my first system
-Large Advents (non walnut)
-HK 610 stereo receiver
-Dual 1219 tt

Tumbleweed Connection sounded damn good on it in my bedroom in 1972

Yes, it was between Advents and JBL and I went the other way with a Kenwood receiver and Dual TT.

It was between the Advents and the JBLs. The Advents did sound very good, but were power hogs. JBLs played a lot louder and being in band hearing live horns - real horns, trumpet, trombone, not Klipschorns!- blasting all day and being a teenager loud was what I wanted. 

Also even back then I was into scrutinizing every little detail. JBL had really nice dust cover fasteners, and looked as good behind as with the covers on. Advents looked like some kids science project. Which now I know shows they put it all into the sound. Oh well. Live and learn. JBL went on sale. I could afford them. The rest is history.

I clearly remember seeing/hearing the "Large" Advents in couple of homes in my childhood.

They were always belonged to a friends older brother. I also recall a few popular posters that were always in the bedroom. "Keep on Truckin" or a Freak Brothers and "Stoned Again" The really cool older brothers had a black light for some other posters.

Although the were of different technology, the Large Advents were followed by the DQ-10, then various Martin-Logan and Magnepan models.  I have been too stable in my gear for the past decade.  The pursuit of the high-end seems to be similiar to my pursuit of sports cars, Bordeaux wine and to an extend...a mate.   I have often wondered about the journey being more the thrill than the end?  Who, or is that whom, knows. 

Me, too.
They were my second pair after some small AR speakers. Used with an AR turntable, Kenwood 6000 amp, Tandberg reel-to-reel.

Me (hand raised)!  Large Advents were actually my 2nd pair of speakers but first pair of really good ones.  Wish I still had them.  I used them initially with a Marantz receiver but when I switched to a NAD integrated they really sounded awesome.  The 40 watts per channel and dynamic headroom of the NAD brought the Advents to life.

Stacked Advents (large, walnut) in the bedroom. Triple Advents for a very brief time until my folks proclaimed: “not here.”

Nope ....

back in the Jurassic age of this hobby .... (early 70’s)...

Bookshelves sequentially in first system:
DYNACO A25s...
then EPIs.....
then finally the JBL L100’s

Nostalgia has its appeal in certain circles for sure . They were  fine for their time in my university dorm with the MARANTZ receiver  of that early age, but those old systems don’t measure up even with the budget options available today.

Large Advent was my first good speaker.  They had 2 versions, I could only afford the lower cost more plain looking ones. 

First "decent" speakers I had were Infinity Qe, small bookshelf size and at the time thought they were great. Ignorance is bliss.

Slightly OT, but I used my Advent 3 for about 15 years before I could afford something else.  After I got divorced and was in a relationship I wound up gifting them to my girlfriend and was pretty impressed with their sound , at that stage 30 years old and having sat in a basement for a decade after years of heavy use.  We broke up a few months later and after no communication for several months I called her out of the blue wondering if I could have the speakers back and the line went dead before I could finish the sentence...

They were my first good speaker. I replaced them with the Dahlquist DQ 10 that used that Advent woofer. And they are both on this list!

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-12-most-significant-loudspeakers-of-all-time/

I started with New Advents in 1978, and used them until I "upgraded" in 2004 to Epos ELS3s. I still remember them fondly.   :-)

My first good speakers. I was so happy!

No but Early on I had Ohm Ls which fit in a college dorm room better. Ls were designed to sound similar to the large Advents but were ported and smaller. 

They sold both at Tech HiFi back then. I personally preferred the sound of the Ohms.